Changes in NHS maternity care ‘too slow’, head of national review finds

Victims of NHS maternity failings received “unacceptable care” leading to “tragic consequences”, the head of a probe into maternity care in England has said.

Changes within services have also been “too slow”, despite being necessary and urgent, according to a new report by Baroness Valerie Amos, who is leading the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation (NMNI).

The document shares her initial impressions after visiting seven trusts, talking with families and meeting NHS staff.

Baroness Amos wrote: “I expected to hear experiences from families about where they had been let down by the care they had received in maternity and neonatal units across the country, but nothing prepared me for the scale of unacceptable care that women and families have received, and continue to receive, th