Three in four maternity units have NO consultants on site out of office Three quarters of maternity units have no consultants on site at night, a damning audit reveals today.
The Daily Mail found that at most centres consultants go home in the early evening, leaving women in the hands of midwives and often exhausted junior doctors.
Weekend cover is also extremely patchy, with the majority of wards relying on a lone consultant who attends for a few hours.
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