Planning for the arrival of a baby involves many complex choices. Among these is deciding how long the mother will take off work to recover from childbirth and care for her newborn full-time. For many ...

A Surrey hospital has seen a considerable improvement in it's maternity services, according to a recently released report published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Bosses at the trust said they ...

Labour MP Ramona Attard has called for a discussion on whether to increase maternity leave amid concerns over Malta's low fertility rate. The backbencher, who sits on parliament's health committee, ...

It was the middle of the night on April 2, 2024, when Teela Banister went into labor. She and her husband raced out the door of their rural home on the outskirts of Baker City in eastern Oregon, ...

South Africa has been placed at the bottom of global maternity leave rankings alongside the US, Papua New Guinea and Tonga. This is according to the Global Maternity Leave Report 2025 by UK-based ...

Another four cases of measles have been confirmed in Cairns, bringing the outbreak total to seven. Queensland Health workers have been confirmed among the infected cases. The Cairns Hospital has ...

Why has the government excluded some of the worst-performing hospital units from its investigation? By Hannah Barnes When the Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced an investigation into England’s ...

Fourteen NHS trusts will be the focus of a national maternity investigation amid a ‘toxic cover-up culture’ that is putting mothers and babies at risk. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) ...

Maternity care at Oxford University Hospitals, including the John Radcliffe, has been criticised in recent years Campaign groups calling for improved maternity care at an NHS Trust have said they are ...

Families involved in the biggest independent inquiry into NHS maternity services say they are "reassured" by the police's handling of a security breach. Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS trust ...

The 14 hospital trusts to be looked at as part of a national investigation into “failures” in NHS maternity and neonatal services have been named. Baroness Amos has been tasked with leading the ...