‘Shockingly poor’: What needs to change in maternity care?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The report calls for a new maternity commissioner who will report to the prime minister, better staffing levels on maternity wards, and for mothers to be listened to more.
On the Sky News Daily, Matt Barbet speaks to campaigner and mother-of-two Tinuke Awe about her experiences of giving birth and is joined by Sky correspondent Laura Bundock to find out what the government plans to do to address the issues raised in the report.
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| 0:00.0 | Uber drivers. Have you seen your pay go down while your fees to Uber go up? |
| 0:05.0 | All because of an algorithm that reduces your take-home pay, making you work more for less. |
| 0:10.0 | We believe Uber's dynamic pay and upfront pricing is unfair. |
| 0:14.0 | That's why Worker Info Exchange has launched the dynamic pay claim to seek compensation for drivers who have lost income. If you've driven for Uber |
| 0:22.7 | at any time since 2020, it's time to stand together. Find out more at dynamic pay.org. |
| 0:30.0 | Pain in my hip. I keep feeling dizzy. I'm getting migraines more often. |
| 0:39.6 | There's another way to contact your GP practice by simply sending your symptoms and requests |
| 0:45.2 | through their website or the NHS app. We're delivering an NHS fit for the future. |
| 0:51.7 | Tap it, type it and we'll take care of it. |
| 0:56.8 | Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? |
| 0:58.6 | Oh, just tight pain in the neck. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello there. |
| 1:04.6 | What a political move to stick two fingers up at Suella Brabman. |
| 1:09.9 | Politics at Jack and Sam's is the podcast where we tell you what's going to happen next week in the wild world of Westminster. |
| 1:11.8 | My name is Jack Blanchard of Politico, and with me as always is the great Sam Coates of Sky News, |
| 1:17.2 | keeping you ahead of the political agenda. One top civil servant said to me, |
| 1:20.3 | they're 70-30 in favour of thinking something will happen as soon as Monday. |
| 1:24.6 | Sam, is it going to happen? Yes or No? |
| 1:26.3 | Listen to Politics at Jack and Sam's, wherever you get your podcasts. Sam, is it going to happen? Yes or now? Listen to politics at Jack and |
| 1:28.0 | Sam's wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, I'm Matt Barbette and today on the Daily, we're looking at |
| 1:33.8 | what is meant to be one of life's happiest and most joyous moments. But for thousands of mums, |
| 1:39.4 | it's proving to be one of the most traumatic. I felt like if someone had just listened to me in the beginning, I wouldn't have gotten |
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