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Do we want to change? – recent reports on maternity services 

Debra
Over recent months various reports relevant to maternity services have been released. Dr Jenny Hall, Editor, Maternity and Midwifery Forum highlights points from the reports, encouraging us to use them to make change.   __________________________________________________   Over recent months, with the current transitions of government here in the UK sharing headlines......
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£733,000 for East Kent Hospitals Trust baby death. It’s not what you think.

Paul
East Kent Hospitals Negligence Fine
It would easy to believe the recent fine for East Kent Hospitals Trust is another in a long line of high cost medical negligence cases but you would be wrong. Many midwives and maternity managers will have seen the headlines about the guilty plea by East Kent Hospitals, the big......
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Challenging racism across the maternity services

Paul
Challenging Racism
In recent months the circumstances around inequality and race have been at the forefront of our minds. The deaths in the United States of black men at the hands of police has caused huge distress and spawned protests across the world, as images were flashed across the internet. In the......
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Vaughan Gething AM- Keynote address

Paul
After facing down calls to quit in Spring 2019 following a damning report into Cwm Taf maternity services, Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services Vaughan Gething AM pledged to improve the quality of maternity care in Wales. At the second annual Wales & South West Maternity & Midwifery......