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To improve maternity services we must confront the damaging ideology that prizes “normal childbirth” over safe care

bmj · 2026-06-28 · canonical JSON source

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The review of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is a devastating read.1 It found that, between 2012 and 2025, 520 women and babies experienced potentially avoidable harm, including 156 babies and six mothers whose deaths might have been prevented with better care.