How Safe is Maternity Care?

Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 5 a.m.

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In 2013, broadcaster and journalist Krupa Padhy, one of the presenters for BBC Radio 4\\u2019s Woman\\u2019s Hour, lost her first child because of medical negligence in a London Hospital. Legal action was taken. Midwives and doctors were given extra training. Lessons were, apparently, learned. But Krupa's life has been changed forever. Over the last few years, systemic failures at multiple maternity units have been uncovered: at Morecambe Bay, Shrewsbury and Telford and East Kent. An investigation is currently underway in Nottingham and there are calls for a review in Leicester. Krupa wants to know what is happening in our maternity wards and how we make them safer.

Producer: Caitlin Smith \\nResearcher: Anna Miles \\nExecs: Peter McManus and Clare Fordham \\nSound design: Eloise Whitmore

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