'Insufficient' Government funding threatens NHS's ability to provide universally safe maternity care, says MPs

'Insufficient' Government funding threatens NHS's ability to provide universally safe maternity care, says MPs

England may not have enough midwives and maternity consultants to provide universally safe care because Government funding is “insufficient”, MPs have said, in the latest stark warning on the country's maternity care crisis. The Independent

See also:

• Midwife shortage may be putting mothers and babies at risk, say MPs The Guardian
• Three in four women happy to endorse their own maternity unit The Guardian
• First local results of friends and family test for maternity services are published NHS England