Chief inspector of hospitals had raised concerns of ‘cultural division’ in approaches to childbirth
England’s chief inspector of hospitals had expressed concerns earlier this year that there was still a “cultural division” between midwives and doctors regarding “normal” and “interventional” approaches to childbirth.
In the wake of a devastating report into the maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals (SaTH), which found that failures led to the deaths and harming of mothers and babies from 2000 to 2019, families who lost children told the Guardian they fear a culture among some midwives of pushing for so-called “normal” births could be putting babies and mothers at risk.
