NHS at 75: What’s the story for maternity services?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Seventy-five years later, and the service is constantly under pressure, and questions are being asked about how sustainable its future is.
In this episode of the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood spends time with staff, patients, and newborns on the maternity unit at Whittington Hospital, in North London.
She examines how services have evolved over the last 75 years for the Service, the pressures on staff as they try to cope after lockdown - and the future for one of Britian's most cherished creations.
Producer: Emma Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
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| 0:30.0 | Easter eggs? M&S, of course. I mean the new Chok Mark's egg, with salted pretzel pieces |
| 0:35.8 | and honey almond new guy is pretty spectacular and what |
| 0:39.1 | about the big daddy loaded half egg filled with caramel and peanut chunks and dark chocolate pieces |
| 0:45.2 | or the Swiss chocolate crispy cloud egg with crunchy corn flakes salted caramel and |
| 0:51.2 | almond yes please so if you're looking for amazing eggs it's got to be mn s this is not |
| 0:56.8 | just food this is m and s food selected stores most people have contact with the NHS from the |
| 1:06.8 | moment they're born they look after us at birth and they look after us at the very end, |
| 1:12.8 | from cradle to grave. So we're better to talk about the birth of the NHS 75 years ago than a |
| 1:19.6 | maternity ward. I'm Sally Lockwood. This is the Sky News Daily. I've just arrived at Wittington |
| 1:25.4 | Hospital in North London, where I'm going to go and talk to some new mums and midwives. |
| 1:31.9 | If you just drag your hands for me before we go in? |
| 1:34.1 | Sure, thank. |
| 1:36.8 | My goodness, I was expecting a lot more noise than this on a maternity ward. |
| 1:39.9 | About one baby starts. |
| 1:41.2 | They all join in. |
| 1:42.5 | A chorus. A chorus of crying. |
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