New NHS data reveals wide variation in the quality and quantity of maternity care across the country, reports The Telegraph.For example, in 2009/10 90% of pregnant women were seen within the first 12 weeks at the Royal Cornwall Hospital’s NHS Trust

A survey of 25,000 women who gave birth in February has found that 92% of the mums were happy with the overall quality of care given on NHS maternity wards.The Care Quality Commission (CQC), which undertook the study, also found that specifically

from the Care Quality Commission.Public Health Minister Anne Milton has said the service aims to enable the NHS to respond to comments and criticisms in a productive way by inviting feedback on the service.The Royal College of Obstetricians

that doctors are now able to save the lives of babies born extremely prematurely, but debates have raged (in the media and elsewhere) as to the quality of the life that has been saved. Legal battles over resuscitating very sick babies have become front page

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been installed by Care, the UK's biggest provider of fertility serives, in its Manchester clinic. The clinic claims it has boosted the pregnancy success rate among IVF patients by 44%, and another 74 women are pregnant thanks to the video monitor. So

or listening techniques."The study showed that mums receiving normal care were significantly more likely to develop depression six months after birth."This is all about the quality of relationship between the health visitor and the mother. There must

found that very fascinating.”“We take care of everyone in our lives except for ourselves. I found that to be true in my own life. I think it’s just a quality that women all share – a little mothering quality that we all have. We literally do so many

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the importance of the quality of midwife care in those home births and it has been questioned whether we have this level of resources available to achieve the same in this country.At a time when organisations like the Royal College of Midwives are calling