Medical Negligence

Birth Trauma report reveals ‘shockingly poor care’ across UK’s maternity services

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Elizabeth Maliakal 

Principal Solicitor for Training & Business Development 

1 min read time
13 May 2024

Hudgell Solicitors has renewed its call for a Statutory Inquiry into the standard of Britain’s maternity services as a new report today highlighted the ‘shockingly poor quality’ across the UK.

An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry into the birth trauma experiences of hundreds of women found good care for pregnant women to be ‘the exception rather than the rule’, with ‘poor care all too frequently tolerated as normal’.

Read our full article: Calls for government to hold statutory inquiry into UK’s woefully failing maternity services following birth trauma report findings

Watch our maternity negligence solicitor Elizabeth Maliakal’s interview on Sky News.

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Elizabeth Maliakal is Principal Solicitor for Training & Business Development  at Hudgell Solicitors specialising in Medical Negligence.
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