How Safe is Maternity Care?

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In 2013, broadcaster and journalist Krupa Padhy, one of the presenters for BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, lost her first child because of medical negligence in a London Hospital. Legal action was taken. Midwives and doctors were given extra training. Lessons were, apparently, learned. But Krupa's life has been changed forever. Over the last few years, systemic failures at multiple maternity units have been uncovered: at Morecambe Bay, Shrewsbury and Telford and East Kent. An investigation is currently underway in Nottingham and there are calls for a review in Leicester. Krupa wants to know what is happening in our maternity wards and how we make them safer.

Producer: Caitlin Smith Researcher: Anna Miles Execs: Peter McManus and Clare Fordham Sound design: Eloise Whitmore

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:40.0	Hello, this is seriously from BBC Radio 4 and I'm Vanessa Casile.
0:47.0	This podcast brings you an incredible selection of documentaries about everything you could
0:52.0	imagine and some things you couldn't.
0:54.4	Here's the most interesting thing you're here all week. Have you ever noticed
1:00.5	when expectant parents talk about their unborn babies they often add all being
1:05.9	well to the end of their sentences. He'll be with us at the end of October all being well.
1:12.2	Such language comes to us so naturally that sometimes we don't even
1:16.6	realize we're saying it. Maybe it's our way of protecting our little ones
1:21.4	before they're even in our arms.
1:23.0	I'm Krupabati, a journalist and broadcaster at the BBC.
1:27.0	All right, I couldn't find the key.
1:30.0	I had to use a nail file. I even lost the key to this. I had to use a nail file I even lost the key to this I had to go on YouTube and figure out how to open it
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