Failing maternity units are operating for more than 200 days on average after official inspections and before special measures are put in place. Data obtained by The Telegraph has revealed that the ...

Staffing shortages and a "culture of mistrust" led to delays and patients being harmed at one of the busiest maternity units in the UK, a review has found. An inspection of maternity care at the Royal ...

Fourteen NHS trusts will be the focus of a national maternity investigation amid a ‘toxic cover-up culture’ that is putting mothers and babies at risk. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) ...

Dr Premila Thampi, a 62-year-old consultant gynaecologist, was suspended after she was accused of bullying a mother into agreeing to the use of dorceps as she was giving birth to her first child at an ...

The abysmal state of maternity care in the UK, among the worst in Europe that is putting mothers’ and babies’ lives at risk, was spelled out in a parliamentary report following a recent inquiry into ...