A report reveals that inadequate progress in NHS maternity care has resulted in the preventable loss of at least 2,500 babies since 2018. The analysis highlights that if the government had effectively worked to halve stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates as promised, fewer than 100 classrooms' worth of babies would have died. Concerns about maternity care were first raised in 2015, when ambitious targets were set, but progress has been slow. Experts stress the need for urgent government intervention to change the dire situation facing expectant mothers and newborns in the UK.
A delay in improving NHS maternity care is costing the lives of hundreds of babies a year, as analysis shows that at least 2,500 fewer babies would have died since 2018.
Hundreds of fewer babies a year would have died since 2018 if the government had met its ambition to halve stillbirth and neonatal death rates by 2025.
The stubbornly high rates of stillbirth and neonatal death indicate that ministers are doing too little to tackle the ongoing crisis in maternity and neonatal care.
While the NHS has made significant progress since 2015, it looks likely to fail to deliver on the promised significantly lower rates.
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