NHS che affronta il conto di £ 27 miliardi di sterline per fallimenti di maternità in Inghilterra
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/20/nhs-facing-absolutely-shocking-27bn-bill-for-maternity-failings-in-england?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
di kassiusx
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Time for the NHS to be broken up and privatised. The huge bureaucracy is doing a lot more harm than good.
At some point this starts really taking the piss doesn’t it? How many billions can we keep paying out in compensation without taking away so much money from day to day running of services that we then cause other issues and have to once again pay compensation?
The article makes clear we already spend more on maternity litigation than we actually do on bloody maternity care…
The legacy of austerity. It is why those short-term savings were always a terrible idea – they just created bigger costs conveniently past the next election.
Underfunded, understaffed, and undersupported, this is the result.
There is a systemic scandal here but those working in the NHS, including midwives, need to take a look at themselves and how they treat expectant mothers. Empathy and care should be the rule not the exception.
If they invested this money in extra staff and additional training, the bill would be far less. But nah, can’t do that. Gotta leave departments underfunded, understaffed and families suffering as a result. It’s pathetic.
Could it be anything to do with poorly trained/under educated nurses?
No mention of how midwifery education in the UK is cult-like and rife with woo and little medicine?
when ur maternity wards are run by midwives are we really surprised lol
This is why families, particularly in Nottingham, have been pushing for a statutory inquiry with some real powers and teeth.
We’ve had years of reviews, with Donna Ockenden doing her best, but admitting there’s only so much she can do because her team can’t compel anyone to speak to them.
Instead we get Wes crying crocodile tears and announcing another “review” with no powers, like he’s just woken up from a coma and thinks we don’t know what the problems are.
As a midwife, it’s horrible the way maternity is at the moment. Majority of us midwives hate how we can’t always provide the best standard of care due to time/staffing/equipment etc and we really wish it could change! Obviously there is also some midwives who unfortunately are the cause of poor outcomes and experiences, and that definitely needs to be looked in to. I do find it interesting that people are blaming it on ‘woo’ and not intervening etc, when actually intervention rates are ridiculously high, c-section rates are increasing and it feels rare to see a woman come in to labour spontaneously and deliver vaginally without help. Intervention is essential in saving mum and babies life’s, however there are times when doing more causes problems. Inductions can lead to delays in progress, c-sections, haemorrhages. C-sections can affect bonding, breastfeeding and increase the risk of postnatal depression. It’s a fine line and sometimes poor outcomes may be due to the intervention. So it’s not a blanket there isn’t enough intervention. We need more staff, better equipment, better maternity units (mine is shit yet every other part of the hospital gets better and new areas built) and a lot more education on preparing for labour, during labour and what to expect. I don’t know about every hospital, but my experience is that maternity departments are bottom of the hospitals list and so we barely get any budget for improvements. Most of us midwives went into our job hoping to support women to achieving the birth they want, or at least helping making things better even when it goes wrong. It’s so sad that unfortunately that can’t always happen anymore.
As long as midwives lead labour/delivery suite this will continue to happen. Most have shameful attitudes and get some power trip out of causing suffering to pregnant women. Get the obstetricians to lead the units and midwives to act as nurses. Only in U.K. does this happen.
The number one factor that directly correlates to improved patient outcomes is a higher staff ratio.
More staff = fewer deaths.
Tory austerity stripped the NHS of so much more than just money. They’re responsible for this entire shitshow
I have had two kids in the last 5 years. NHS was bloody awful outside of the NICU which was fantastic.
Should probably fire lazy staff, drop pseudo science, and actually use proven medicine not quackery then
Every woman has a different idea of what a positive birth is for them, there is no ‘best way’ just what is best for that person.
Unfortunately facilitating that for each women is no longer possible given the pressures on the NHS.