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Government performance on meeting its NHS workforce commitments is 'inadequate' and has left quality and safety of patient care at risk, an expert panel commissioned by MPs has warned.
UK GPs who graduated overseas face worse outcomes in GMC cases because they are far more likely to attend medical tribunals without legal representation, medico-legal experts have warned.
Improvements in maternity safety are still not happening quickly enough, with little progress made against some key Government targets and too few staff, MPs have said.
The Health and Social Care Committee commissioned an expert panel to evaluate the Government’s key policy commitments on maternity services, which found that all key areas were performing below expected levels or were inadequate.
The experts in maternity and patient safety, including its chair Professor Dame Jane Dacre and Sir Robert Francis QC, reported to MPs that, while there has been “significant progress” in reducing stillbirths and neonatal deaths, more needs to be done to reduce the premature birth rate, and the whole area of patient safety “requires improvement”.
BLAME culture in maternity services is preventing safety lessons being learnt, MPs have warned, as they call for urgent action to save 1,000 more babies a year.
Today’s wide-ranging report by the health & social care committee on maternity safety in England reveals evidence of a “defensive culture, dysfunctional teams [and] safety lessons not learned.”
The cross-party group, which includes Labour MPs Barbara Keeley and Sarah Owen, found that more than a third of Care Quality Commission ratings for maternity services identified requirements to improve safety larger than in any other specialty.
And a separate report commissioned from an expert panel set up by the committee charges that the government’s overall progress in key areas such as safety, staffing and personalised care has been far too slow and requires improvement.