A new taskforce has been established to explore disparities in maternity care. The Government said that it had launched a “Maternity Disparities Taskforce” to examine the reasons why women and
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has compared the morning after pill to a method of abortion, as he answered calls for a debate on proper funding for contraception advice for women. Mr Rees-Mogg
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A woman gave birth to a stillborn baby in “shocking circumstances” in a prison toilet after a nurse mistook her labour for period pain, a watchdog’s investigation has found. Prisons
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The wife of a former soldier who was beaten by her husband and whose life was in “chaos” has been jailed for life to serve a minimum of nine years
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Maternity services are at “breaking point” and the “crisis” in maternity care should be addressed as a “national emergency”, midwives have said. The warning came as supporters of a March
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The wife of a former Commonwealth army soldier murdered her newborn son after “snapping” over the stresses of applying for permission to stay in the UK while struggling to support
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Scotland’s professional adviser for midwifery and perinatal care Jaki Lambert has been appointed as the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) new director for Scotland. Ms Lambert (pictured), from Argyll and
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Concerns have been raised that a significant proportion of health checks for new babies are still occurring online. A new report highlights how many appointments are still being held virtually
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A quarter of stillbirths and a fifth of premature births across England are due to socio-economic inequalities, research suggests. A review in The Lancet of more than a million births
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Almost a fifth of the most critically ill coronavirus patients in England in recent months were unvaccinated pregnant women, health officials said as they urged expectant mothers to get their
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