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, or have a go at something from"Traumatic, super-hot and overcrowded" are just some of the words mums used to describe their experience at "inadequate" maternity hospitals.Many women have spoken out about their distressing births at Musgrove Park in Taunton and Yeovil District Hospital, Somerset, which were both
One woman was wheeled naked into a reception because the wards were "too hot" so she had to take all her clothes off.Another mum-to-be was "ignored" by midwives when she told them she was going into labour. She said during the "traumatic birth", she felt "very alone" and ended up with a tear.
Many of the issues at both hospitals have reportedly arisen because the buildings are "not fit for purpose", and parents are now calling for them to be revamped.
Musgrove Park was on the list ofHow safety was regarded as, at best, not as a vote-winner; and at worst as an obstruction to the economy. How regulation was viewed as guidance to be bent. An inherent lack of curiosity - a presumption that someone else would check, that something
bad couldn’t happen here.More than 3,000 high- and mid-rise buildings across England are still being monitored because they have unsafe cladding.
The recommendations made next week will attempt to ensure such a disaster can never happen again.As always the government will have no obligation to carry these out. Nor is there a formal process to monitor what they reject or why.