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Epistatacadam on Nostr: nprofile1q…s60lz The last time there was a crisis in maternity services. We had the ...

The last time there was a crisis in maternity services. We had the Peel report.
It closed local maternity homes & centralised labour wards. This led to the phase of active management of labour. The rights and wrongs of that have never been properly resolved, but clearly what's happening now is untenable. We train midwives, but don't employ them & maternity departments are understaffed.
If ever there was a case of short termism costing more, investing in healthy babies is cheaper.