Maternity Review Report Sets New Ambitions

The report of the National Maternity Review, published in February 2016, sets new ambitions for the maternity services and services to mothers before and after childbirth. It calls for:

1. Personalised care
2. Continuity of carer
3. Safer care
4. Better postnatal and perinatal mental health care
5. Multi-professional working
6. Working across boundaries
7. A fair payment system to enable all this

Here is a recommended personal commentary with a National Childbirth Trust perspective (scroll down to 23 Feb 2016 item).