{"id":665670,"date":"2026-06-30T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665670\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:40:08","slug":"maternity-care-system-in-england-not-fit-for-the-now-and-not-fit-for-the-future-says-review-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665670\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternity care system in England &#8216;not fit for the now and not fit for the future&#8217;, says review chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Amos review?published at 06:26 BST<\/p>\n<p>06:26 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman in a white shirt looks out of a window whilst holding her baby\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/39d11301-69f0-425c-a759-9b5ae6c3b17e.jpg.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"548\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation was set-up by then-Health Secretary Wes Streeting in June last year, after he said he had heard \u201charrowing stories\u2026 from mothers and fathers let down by the NHS\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baroness Amos, a former government minister, was asked to head the investigation, reviewing the maternity and neonatal system and bringing together findings from previous reports into a single national set of actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its aim was to ensure \u201cevery woman and baby receives safe, high-quality and compassionate care\u201d, the government said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce will be responsible for implementing the recommendations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However some families have criticised the limitations on what the review can do, and the short time is has to do it, fearing that meaningful action could not follow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Controversy has also surrounded the publication of the final report after one of the country&#8217;s leading maternity investigators resigned over its conclusions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Bill Kirkup, who investigated maternity services in Morecambe Bay and East Kent, is understood to have disagreed with Amos over her finding that a push for normal birth, including denying women caesarean sections, was not prevalent nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the Amos review?published at 06:26 BST 06:26 BST Image source, Getty Images The National Maternity and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665670","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=665670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}