Urgent and sweeping changes are needed in all English hospitals to prevent avoidable baby deaths, stillbirths and neonatal brain damage, according to a damning internal review into one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NHS.
In light of these findings, we’d like to hear from people who feel the care they received during pregnancy and childbirth in NHS settings in England was problematic and could have been better.
We are particularly interested in hearing from people who feel they were affected by failures similar to those recorded at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospityals (SaTH), which include a reluctance to conduct caesarean sections; a tendency to blame mothers for problems; a failure to handle complex cases; a lack of consultant oversight, and a “deeply worrying lack of kindness and compassion”.
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