Naturally, we’re always thrilled when we read headlines like this about significant investment into Britain’s maternity wards.
This article by Shaun Lintern of The Independent is well worth a read.
It describes how the Independent exposed a series of cases in which mothers and babies had suffered avoidable harm during childbirth.
Following a year of campaigning by The Independent, Ministers are now to invest millions in making Britain’s maternity wards safer,
The new money, almost £10m, was announced as part of the spending review unveiled by Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, in the Commons and will deliver new pilots of what the Treasury called “cutting-edge training” to improve practice during childbirth.