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Wes Streeting announces investigation into NHS maternity services
- On June 23, 2025, Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced the initiation of a swift nationwide inquiry into maternity care within NHS facilities across England to tackle critical shortcomings.
- The investigation follows longstanding crises marked by understaffing, safety issues, and recent scandals at trusts including Nottingham and Leeds, where families demand truth and accountability.
- The inquiry will have two parts: urgently examining up to 10 of the worst-performing maternity and neonatal units and a system-wide review to develop national improvement actions.
- Streeting apologized on behalf of the NHS for the harm suffered, stating, "no parent or baby is ever let down again," and emphasized meeting bereaved families over the past year.
- The investigation will start this summer, report by December 2025, and aims to deliver urgent improvements, hold leaders accountable, and restore trust in maternity care.
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Labour in the time of lockdown: The Soon Life comes to Southwark Playhouse Borough
This autumn, a bold, bitingly funny and deeply human play, The Soon Life, from writer and performer Phoebe McIntosh, will debut at Southwark Playhouse Borough. Set during lockdown in a London flat, the play unfolds in real-time to explore the messy intersections of motherhood, relationships and identity in an authentic and unapologetic presentation of childbirth.
Our maternity services are in crisis. It’s time for the government to act.
Earlier this month, I stood in the House of Commons and told the story of Yeovil’s maternity unit. A much-valued, much-used service, where 1,300 babies are born each year, was forced to shut its doors with barely a week’s notice. The cause? A combination of staff sickness, pressure, and a damning Section 29A notice from the Care Quality Commission. This is not just a story about one hospital in Somerset. It is a warning about a national system i…
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