East Kent: A decade of failure in maternity care

On the coronary heart of the belief’s issues, it appears, is a dysfunctional tradition that stretches again nearly a decade. In 2015, a assessment of its maternity providers by the Royal Faculty of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists discovered a number of issues, together with consultants failing to hold out ward rounds, assess ladies or attend out-of-hours calls. The report was dismissed as “a load of garbage” by the belief. A Maternity Enchancment Plan, overseen by NHS England, was devised. Nonetheless, by the top of 2019 fewer than 1 / 4 of its motion factors had been accomplished.