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Fragmentation and short-sightedness in the NHS is brutalising mothers and babies Source
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We have to fix maternity care
The Critic (United Kingdom) | Aug 5, 2026
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Aug 5, 2026
The NHS must prioritize maternal mental health services to support new mothers.
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Maternity care outcomes will not improve unless the NHS measures and publicly reports standardised safety metrics—stillbirth, maternal mortality, infection rates—across all trusts quarterly.
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Maternity care should incorporate input from mothers to ensure services meet their real needs.
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The NHS should implement standardized training for all maternity care providers to ensure consistent care.
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Maternity care reform should prioritise fixing trust-level management, staff training, and accountability before investing in new models that require additional resources.
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Women on low incomes should have equal access to antenatal and postnatal care regardless of whether their NHS trust is well-funded or under-resourced.
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Maternity care fragmentation across multiple NHS trusts and private providers reflects necessary local autonomy, and centralised reform would reduce flexibility and increase bureaucracy.
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Any maternity care reform must include transparent mechanisms for mothers to report failures and for complaints to lead to measurable changes in practice, not repeated assurances.
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Midwives in the NHS are so understaffed that asking them to provide continuity of care would overstretch individuals and worsen staff burnout without additional recruitment.
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NHS maternity services are already chronically underfunded, and short-term efficiency reforms will worsen outcomes unless accompanied by sustained funding increases.
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