Women ‘being failed by underfunded and understaffed’ UK postnatal care

Experts said too many women were ‘being left without a safety net at one of the most important and vulnerable times of their lives’. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Women in the UK are being failed by a postnatal care system that is “dangerously underfunded and understaffed”, a damning report has warned.

Thousands of new mothers feel unsafe, unsupported and overwhelmed in the weeks and months after giving birth, according to the National Childbirth Trust (NCT).