NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Maternity care in Britain has found itself under a worrying spotlight this year.
Inquiries have highlighted alarming failures in NHS hospitals that have led to dozens of avoidable mother and baby deaths while others have revealed inequalities that mean Black women in the UK are four times more likely to die in childbirth.
Calls for change should be too loud to hear – but those on the frontline know too well that lessons can go unheeded.
Eight years ago, London-based consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Benjamin Black spoke to Metro after he found himself at the centre of the Ebola outbreak days after arriving for his first humanitarian mission, in Sierra Leone, west Africa.