Four out of five hospitals are short of midwives, a new investigation has found. Funding cuts mean the situation is "getting worse, not better", according to midwife leaders.
As large charities succumb to market ideology, the fate of genuinely independent grassroots organisations - such as those supporting midwives and new mothers - hangs in the balance.
Hunt lodged an eleventh hour appeal against the Lewisham Hospital verdict last night. He is determined not just to close Lewisham hospital services but to have carte blanche to do the same elsewhere.
Hunt has to decide by tomorrow whether to appeal his defeat over the Lewisham Hospital closure - but if he succeeds in overturning it no hospital will be safe.
Today Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plans to cut services and close departments at Lewisham Hospital were defeated in the High Court after a fiercely fought grassroots campaign.
All women deserve the very best level of safety and choice when it comes to childbirth - but attacks on NHS maternity services are threatening these rights.
Day two and three of the court challenge to the decision to close swathes of Lewisham Hospital.
The welfare of children should be everybody's business but both health and social care reforms and wider austerity policies are failing to address this vital issue. The situation is reaching a crisis point - a new BMA report suggests how government should respond.
Next week Jeremy Hunt will announce the closure of A&E and maternity services, in the face of a concerted campaign which culminated in today’s 20,000+ march. I don’t think he has any realistic choice but to do this, and here’s why...
