Maternity services are 'shockingly poor' in UK says damning report 

That’s terrible 😞

I’m 22 weeks now, but had my son in the states and will be having this baby on he NHS. I am terrified and already was before all this came out.

@@veverest2155 I hope everything goes well for you. Make sure you have someone with you, who can advocate for you.

@@veverest2155I gave birth in May last year. The service was absolutely incredible by the NHS. My partner and I couldn’t stop talking amongst ourselves about how incredible they are. It depends where you are. I’m in Scotland don’t let this scare or stress you.

@@user-kl8hf6fs7o Birth Registrations in 2023 Scotland 45,914 Finland 43,320 out-birthed by 5,65 percent or 2594 Kuwait 39,901 out-birthed by 13,1 percent or 6013 Uruguay 35,643 out-birthed by 22,37 percent or 10,271 Singapore 33,541 out-birthed by 26,95 percent or 12,373

Sadly doctors don’t give a xxxx. They’re in it for money and to get their private practices going. Destroyed deliberately. Women should be looking after wo😢men. It’s ONLY WOMEN who understand WOMEN

My daughters too mate, it’s a disgrace nowadays

Why did you make her pregnant? A man who respects his woman would never put her into such awful suffering

Sorry to hear this sir 😢😢😢

I had almost I similar experience to you.. it was awful... hope your doing better... its been 5 years down the line and I can't forget it....

Pals is the biggest waste of money in the nhs full of formalities but no substance

I think you're looking at it a bit too much through the lens of nostalgia, but at least until 14 years of the Tory regime started in 2010 things were better in some aspects. Not everything.

No single UK health service or maternity service. Can you please state which NHS it was

I was sick and my baby 2 months premature. Shouted at for getting out of bed and shouted at for not being in SCBU at the same time!

@@HellCatt0770 In Scotland parents get free Scottish Baby Box and the Scottish Child Payment and double the free early learning & childcare than in the rest of the UK.

Same. Spent my time trying to bond with my baby in SCBU and didn't take painkillers which I was criticised for in my notes. Baby fell asleep in my arms so was 5 mins overdue a feed and the nurse scolded me for it as she would have to try and wake him up. Apparently it messed up her schedule for feeding other kids 🙄 honestly I don't know how I didn't rip her throat out that day. I reported her to a senior member of staff which made things worse as she had 3 friends working in the SCBU who absolutely gave me daggers at every opportunity afterwards. Ended up with PND and I've had that thrown in my face during my second pregnancy 12 years later which was horrible. I'm pregnant again and absolutely dreading the mental health card being played against me again.

So God impeg, nated, you? Definitely one to ponder!☺

Spend more money on it. With your Jewish leaving, and semiopen brders tothe world.... best of luck, but its what you wanted.

Plenty of staff, they’ve just gotten lazy after watching the diversity hires do nothing all day

Why can’t you have enough staff?

Statistics continue to prove how much healthcare provides for men only and women are left seriously lacking. Pain relief wasn't even tested on women until 1994, and every treatment and medications are continued to be treated on men only. The medical world is made by men for men, and women are treated as second class citizens. Doctors would rather call us hysterical than address real issues. More funding and research has gone into ED than it ever has female specific issues like PCOS and even female specific cancers. Women need to wake up and realise that we are horribly mistreated in the medical world, we need to fight for our rights. Just recently, a new study showed that pregnant and birthing mothers are the most verbally and generally a bused patients in the entire medical community. Women need to stop pretending we've met equality, because we haven't, this world is very much made by men for men and we're not even an afterthought.

Right. That's why many of us choose not to have children in the first place.

My thoughts exactly, it’s not just the maternity services that are ‘shockingly poor’.

It's a typical Tory tactic. They want to privatise the NHS so they can line their pockets. Underfund a national service, point to the service when it stops working due to underfunding and say "see? Free things never work!" And then privatise it in a way that only benefits the Tories and wealthy. The Tories want the American model in Britain. They've fought against the NHS since it was a thing. In the 70s the NHS was one of the best healthcare systems in the world, now it's equivalent to third world care... All because of the Tories. Unfortunately, people are buying into their propaganda that privatisation "works" better, as if America doesn't have one of the worst healthcare systems and treatments in the whole of the west. But Tory propaganda is working and people are believing it.

@@fawnieee All true, unfortunately. We have a Health Secretary who, more or less, wrote the book on privatising NHS services. The great Tory hero, Mr Churchill, voted against the creation of the NHS 21 times. Many of the current bunch have connections with the US insurance industry. A couple of days ago, I went to see Michael Sheen playing Nye Bevan in the play 'Nye'. It should be required watching, just to remind everybody how the NHS was created and what it was like before it came into being. I'm with Nye Bevan on many things. Here's a quote from him that could have been written today: "So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation. Now the Tories are pouring out money in propaganda of all sorts and are hoping by this organised sustained mass suggestion to eradicate from our minds all memory of what we went through."

Can there be a class action suit against a political party? The only way to fix it is to hold those responsible, accountable

@@veverest2155 I'm not sure of how class actions work, but I imagine that it would be virtually impossible to hold any of them responsible. They have power, money, friends in high places and massive support in the media. And, as many of them are millionaires, they would have lawyers coming out of their ears. I think the only way of even remotely getting back to some kind of sanity is to vote them out of office, so that they don't return to power for several decades.

Compassion has nothing to do with funds!

Scotland has a different culture of care (mirrored in their voting) and has had governments that have protected essential services from the worst of Tory barbarism.

But it depends where in Scotland you are. Care is only as good as the team providing it!

I’m already scared of what happened. My dream became my nightmare. I thought I was going insane. Nobody listened, but I knew I couldn’t be they only one. I just wanted mums and babies to be safe. I was scared...for mine and my babies life. He said if he killed me he could say my baby was dead and take her! I screamed for help. There was nobody there but him. My arms already strapped to the bed. Paralysed from the waste down. Listening to somebody praise Hitler... I was... broken every day after that.

I lost a child (miscarriage) in England, completely neglected and ignored! It was a nurse in charge (who looked like my aunt) that came to apologise to me, on the behalf of her colleagues. There was no diagnosis and the doctors made me feel like I was crazy. I had my next child in wales, where I was diagnosed with high risk pregnancy (weak cervix) and the staff were AMAZING while I carried my rainbow baby! My baby was full term and healthy. I also had my last born in Wales, unfortunately she was born at 25 weeks (cervix issue) she was delivered by a junior doctor, less than an hour after arriving at th3 hospital. The whole team did a phenomenal job because my daughter just celebrated her 5th birthday, zero medical complications, or birth related disabilities. Thank God I moved! I feel much more comfortable, knowing my needs are met during a hospital visit.

I also had an outstanding experience and was really impressed. I am in the south of England and gave birth in a hospital rated outstanding for its maternity services.

You mean the ‘Scapegoat’

I was before Lucy letby.

@@user-fe1gb9uc1t I think @borja1000 is just outlining how the nhs works, it likes scapegoats because that way they can fool the public into thinking ‘problem solved, nothing to see here’

It’s almost as if it may have just been an incredibly incompetent unit…

We need private healthcare! NHS had no competition for years, so they got worse and worse....

I completely agree with you. 2 years ago I had a very traumatic birth due to I've been delayed for almost 50 plus hours after my water broke to be admitted into a room so I can be induced, then being in labour for almost 12 hours afterwards my baby was distressed and I had to be rushed into emergency c-section which all resulted into my baby being born unable to breathe, had a systemic infection and admitted to NICU and needed to be sedated and had antibiotics for 5 days. What got me through all this nightmare was the level of care, compassion and warmth that my baby got in NICU, the staff there were the best in everything, very qualified, very compassionate and really knew what to do and took good care of my baby from the first second.

@@mariamomer7875 ❤️ it’s probably one of the most challenging experiences you will go through as a mother! I’m so glad your baby received the best treatment. I really wish we could keep all mothers and babies together and both of them get the same level of care and support.

after Lucy Letby i've lost all respect for the NHS

You have NO RIGHT to complain🤫

​@@Man_fay_the_Bru on what grounds?

If they are paying taxes they do. ​@@Man_fay_the_Bru

I agree with this. Also pakistans health services is improving whilst the UK is declining.

Yeah,you can go live in Pakistan any day.

My grandson did, they gave us photos of him& he looked like he’s been a ah salt ed( this yt man🤦‍♂️)

We've been destroyed from the inside out.

I know it’s not for everyone but you should explore the option of having a home birth, I’m due any day and the care I have received since going down this route has been phenomenal in comparison to the giving birth in hospital route

I'm 17 weeks with my 5th and dreding it.

These 5-6 day hospital stays after delivery were commonplace in the UK in the 1980s. It is well known now that hospital stays increase the risk of infection and complications following surgery. Why would you want to stay any longer than is absolutely necessary when you are (presumably) otherwise healthy and can recover in your own bed? I was out of hospital 4 hours after (non-obstetric) abdominal surgery for this reason in Australia, so it isn't just labour ward that send otherwise well people home to recover. Whilst it would be nice to have the support of the midwives on the ward with a new baby, a 5 day stay is also exposing you to risk to save you a few nappies for your third child. I do agree community midwifery needs to be better so that people can have the support of midwifes postpartum. Perhaps if the UK increased its income taxation to be 5-10% so on par with Germany then it could pay for better community services for new mothers.

Lived in France, Australia, and Vietnam. All much more pleasant places than Britain.

*England

@@ScottishRoss27 Scotland is just as bad. Don’t think for one second they are not. Eleanor Best and Stacey Smith are just two.

@@Burglar-King Scotland England Child Poverty Targets enshrined in Law Scraped in 2015 Scottish Infant Feeding Survey Scrapped in 2015 Public Breastfeeding anti discrimination law Not followed Free Personal Nursing Care Not followed Nursing Bursary £10,000 £5000 NHS parking charges abolished Charged Mitigation of UK Bedroom Tax since 2013 Over 500k households victim Scottish Maternity Grant £754 Maternity Grant £500 Free Scottish Baby Box Not followed Scottish Child Payment Not followed 30 hours per week free childcare 16 hours per week School Uniform Grant £120 £87 Free School Meals Primary 1 to 5 Primary 1 to 2 Free National Bus Travel to U22's Not followed ScotRail Kids for a Quid Scheme Not followed Free NHS dental care up to age 26 Not followed Education Maintenance Allowance Scraped in 2010 Music Tuition fees abolished Charged Voting Age 16 18 Free Entry to Museums & Galleries Charged Free University Tuition to Scots £9520 a year Lowest Income Tax Rate 19% 20%

In went woke. fourteen thousand millions, and your channel four support this. Maybe try printing money.

@@user-fe1gb9uc1t personal experience so the comment stays at it is. Sorry if it disappoints you

Notice nobody cares about your comment SYED🤫

You will be fine. I am sure you will get a great midwife during your labour. Mine was great but the other nurses werent as good and probably other hospital staff but that’s fine.

Couldn’t agree more, the woman that turned my nieces machine off seemed happy to tell us she’d be dead within a cple minutes, lots of psychos in hospitals working….I blame DEI

So is it because the staff are overworked and don’t have time to provide adequate care or is it because they are being sadistic?

​@@LadyLuck8_4I think the ones that are left are by and large sadistic and twisted.

@@LadyLuck8_4 No, the woman was in the bed with blood pouring out of her wound, it was going through the bedsheets. She was close to the desk on the ward, and there was around 4 staff sitting at the desk PRETENDING to not see her. The senior midwife was there too, and the one who kicked me out. The only thing they were busy at doing was IGNORING the suffering mother in pain. I know EXACTLY what I saw. The mother needed her dressing changed, probably needed restitching at the way she was bleeding and needed to be in an isolated room to limit catching any infections due to her terrible condition. IF she survived she would be lucky, but for sure they were leaving her to be infected and probably get a bed ulcer too. IF she survived she would still be traumatised today, and that was a few years back.

@@Man_fay_the_Bru Judging from the controversial German flag on your profile, it looks like you would blame DEI for everything - if anything, immigrants have significantly helped with staffing shortages - we'd be much worse off without them

my friend works as an IT consultant for the NHS - earning six figures and huge bonus he tells me basically they do no actual work,

I have a mild case of cerebral palsy for the same reason (Ireland 35 years ago). My mum has never spoken about what happened or said the words cerebral palsy.

You said something which is what allegedly the providers are telling the patients. 'Mild case' My relative was told that with time the infant will recover and being a young mom she believed. Being a RN in the US I knew immediately it wasn't going to happen. Such negligence would have resulted in serious consequences for providers over here. The child is a complete vegetable

you'll regret bringing a kid into this world. selfish

Wales is not England and thank goodness you have better community there

@poetryinaction2088 obviously, the title of the video says UK not England 😐

@@Gazshadows it’s better to be in Wales and Not England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I prefer the Welsh spirit of community

BINGO!!I am the same! After 2 pregnancies i am telling future mothers to give birth abroad or save up for private care.

I feel sorry for you, I've witnessed it twice when my wife gave birth to our son's, absolutely shocking service, women and babies are put at risk of death every single day

The NHS is only like this because of 15 years of underfunding and stealing funds to give to private companies that put profits first. I still have faith in the NHS, just not while the Tories are in charge.

❤😢 so so not nice how painful for you How sare they how could they smh

I agree about the lack of compassion. I had an operation in 2007 and was in agony afterwards. The person in the next bed, (not me) called for a nurse on my behalf and the nurse told me that I must have a low pain threshold.

That's horrific, I'm so sorry ❤

@@CritterHeadquarters that was with girl 4 and a year later walked in the the delivery room on girl number 5 of 5...

Exactly! They don’t even recognise what a woman is! Doesn’t give me any faith that we are a serious consideration.

No room for transphobia here - everyone knows the problem is Tory management of the NHS, not trans-inclusive care - not that the NHS is trans-inclusive

quite fitting that an indian should preside over it's decline to third world status

A courage to have second? lol It's so disgusting. How can 1000s of women across this planet end up as breeding cows? It's so so so disgusting and humiliating

The nurses were clrd I take it, utterly inept

Who uses the word coloured in 2024 other than racists???

​@@everydaywinningI'm happily proudly coloured aannddd😊 i don't feel offended being called coloured. South African coloured ppl are actually a race. Y'all are too sensitive

What she's saying is coloured women gets treated worse than Caucasian women..but i disagree i think immigrants of all races gets treated differently

@sammym9259 we are not talking about South African colored, I am from Zimbabwe and we use coloured people for mixed race too. However, in the UK it is an offensive word used to describe people that are not black. We are comparing apples and bananas here.

Stop talking nonsense dear, they get enough money& there’s plenty of them too, especially of the diverse persuasion( what’s Actually ruining it)

@@Man_fay_the_Bru What a moronic response. Congratulations! You win a prize for sharing your ignorance with the rest of us.

You are 100% correct, the whole NHS is in shambles. Staff is over worked and that affects a lot more that what people think. The pay is awful as well, nurses and doctors are not well paid and a lot of them are now leaving and going to Australia and Canada, some even South Africa. The working conditions there are much better

​@@Man_fay_the_Brumidwives do not get enough money. And wherever they are from women are grateful for their good service. I think your comment is racist and unnecessary. If men had to bear children it would be very different.

The situation is certainly awful with the NHS not providing enough to support. They are overworked and frustrated but this isn't an excuse to treat women, their patients, with disrespect and indifference like many of the stories we heard in the video and read in the comments. Empathy should always be there for the patients, instead they use their work/life frustrations to justify not caring, that is NOT OK!

A mentally stable woman would never do this to herself. How can you even try to get knocked up and be a breeding cow again? It's disgusting

I had 3 midwives harassing me whilst pregnant but not even measuring my bump, weighing me, they ignored my medical conditions and just tried to chit chat with me about random stuff. In the hospital i also had 3 midwives, they ignored me whilst chatting about their weekend plans for hours, when i needed something they yanked me about so roughly they bruised my entire arm black, and i am a brown skinned woman, i've never bruised black before in my life, that midwives obviously hated me for being a burden to her. Not enough midwives isn't the issue. Hiring 20yr old girls who hate pregnant women and don't want to work is the issue. If they just hired women who have had children there would be an innate compassion there to push them to do their jobs, but they don't, the whole system is full of 20yr old girls with no kids, no life experience, and underdeveloped brains.

Actually, I’m not sure we are more work on the wards from my experience. Perhaps a little more work for surgical teams initially, but then emergency C-sections or having to stitch up tearing from a natural birth would take as much resource time or more. We are well contained. Turn up at the appointed time, wait for a slot after the emergency C-sections (understandably), spinal block, short abdominal surgery and sent to the ward. Once the catheter is removed we are back on our feet and off any pain meds within @ 4 days or less. The midwives give us no quarter and have us push through any pain pretty much immediately - careful to avoid a mild bleed when socialised that any pain you experience doesn’t matter due to your choices! Couldn’t help but notice I was pretty much independent on the ward within the day - taking myself to the loo, attempting to feed and change my baby, etc., while many of the other women were struggling still, having bleeds, etc.

@@Stormcrow-dc3ez I was only referring to the amount of c cections carried out today . In theatres we never did half the amount of c sections . Elective lists are at least two days a week on top of emergencies , no extra time or staff have been given to allow for the fact a woman can demand a section wether it is clinically needed for mother and child . It’s major surgery , many risks involved . At my trust we are doing double amounts now . I guess I’m old school and if there is no need to have a section , give birth as nature intended . We have had incidences when emergencies have been blocked in theatre by electives . We really try but one day I fear it will end in a death . I’ve had a c section btw for fetal distress , it was terrifying . Post op complications , can’t see why someone would choose it but each to there own . They just never considered they would need more theatre staff to cope with demand

​@bethanhamer.8669 I'll be having one scheduled. The amount of stress the antenatal department has put me under with this pregnancy I'm not risking it when it comes time for the main event. I don't trust the midwives to even do a blood draw at this point. Which was only done once at the start of pregnancy and the stupid woman went straight through the vein. Never had my urine dipped. Never been weighed. Nobody said anything at my anomaly scan, I had to call to ask about it after. They refuse to send me for physio for PGP which I'm off work today with because I couldn't drag my left leg out of bed. I'd rather give the responsibility to a surgeon who does the procedure day in and day out than trust the judgement of those witches, I mean midwives. I've been refused to have my partner or a chaperone in the room with me when being examined despite being a CSA victim. And I've had my neurocognitive disability openly mocked too. Ther services are a disgrace. The staff that are left are horrible and it will be blamed on "burnout". I run an NHS service by myself. I have never once taken the state of how overstretched, underpaid, and underresourced we are out on any of my patients. Not once. Not ever. It is not acceptable.

That was the plan with ‘Austerity’

Poor recruitment choices definitely play a part

Lack of proper leadership. These people are after money that’s why they are not funding the nhs well to thrive on itself.

@@HellCatt0770definitely, never had the same shite when matrons ran wards

It's all of the above. I personally think staff shortages and shitty pay are the main cause of this mess. Its just like any job, if you are well paid and don't have to do work for 2 people, you do a better job.