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Patient safety measure is part of 10-year plan to tackle poor standards in mental health and maternity servicesThe NHS is to become the first health system in the world to use AI to analyse hospital databases and catch potential safety scandals early, …
Proportion of women giving birth after fertility treatment up by more than a third in a decade, figures revealThe proportion of women giving birth after fertility treatment in the UK has increased by more than a third in a decade, with the equivalent o…
Baby charities’ report shows that high rates of stillbirth and neonatal death are not reducing quickly enoughA delay in improving NHS maternity care is costing the lives of hundreds of babies a year, analysis has shown.At least 2,500 fewer babies would…
ABC programme is designed to give clinicians more confidence to take swift action in an emergencyAn NHS programme to boost maternity safety and prevent brain injuries during childbirth is to be rolled out across England.The avoiding brain injuries in c…
Mistake at Queensland fertility care clinic results in woman unknowingly giving birth to another patient’s baby after embryos mixed upGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA woman has given birth to another person’s baby after…
Exclusive: Marie Tidball tells of her experiences with NHS as report finds 44% higher risk of stillbirth for disabled womenWhen doctors tried to work out whether Marie Tidball would need a specially designed birth plan, one asked her to lie fully cloth…
Pioneering operation could allow dozens of infertile women a year to have babiesSurgeons have performed the first womb transplant on a woman in the UK, opening up the possibility for dozens of infertile women to have babies every year. The woman’s sist…
Study says little progress has been made in preventing development problems when infants born more than two months earlyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhile most babies born more than two months prematurely now…
Care Quality Commission finds many services inadequate, needing improvement or shut over safety concernsNearly half of all NHS hospital maternity services covered so far by a national inspection programme have been rated as substandard, the Observer c…
FDA approves new test, which has been widely celebrated as a small victory in the fight to make childbirth safer in the USThe Food and Drug Administration for the first time approved a test to detect preeclampsia, a leading cause of maternal death in t…