The culture of our maternity services has not changed, three years into the national strategy, writes Victoria White

The lives of pregnant women and unborn babies are being gambled with due to a “geographic lottery” when it comes to standards in the country’s maternity services.

A maternity care support group is today calling for a review of all pregnancy scanning procedures, not just for the early stages.

A REPORT finding no link between backache and reduced mobility to epidural injections used to relieve labour pain has been described as “laughable” by maternity groups here.