{"id":446259,"date":"2026-02-26T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446259\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:43:09","slug":"racism-and-staffing-issues-factors-in-failing-maternity-care-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446259\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism and staffing issues factors in &#8216;failing&#8217; maternity care, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour MP Michelle Welsh, a prominent campaigner on maternity safety, says there is a danger the Amos review will become a damp squib and is urging the government to act decisively, including creating a maternity commissioner responsible for ensuring care improves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This inquiry must result in some big, bold policies with regards to maternity services, that really says that as a government we want to improve maternity services, we want to invest in it, and we will secure the truth and accountability for families,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing the review last June, Streeting also promised that he would chair a maternity taskforce early this year to drive improvements. But it&#8217;s emerged this week that the group has not yet been established. The Department for Health and Social Care said they would be announcing the membership &#8220;shortly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is important that the taskforce is established as soon as possible,&#8221; said Welsh, &#8220;because without it we don&#8217;t have that driving force [and] those big, bold policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour MP Michelle Welsh, a prominent campaigner on maternity safety, says there is a danger the Amos review&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-446259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}