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Patient safety advocate. Working to reduce avoidable harm in healthcare. Posting in a personal capacity.
Cumbria shorturl.at/40VEO Joined September 2011
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“The confidential enquiries have shown consistent evidence of normalization bias or attribution of women's symptomology to pregnancy or a simple self-limiting condition without proper investigation and diagnosis.”

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…
obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com OBGYN Introduction For more than seven decades, the United Kingdom (UK) Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) have reviewed maternal deaths to identify lessons and improve care. This article...
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“Here is the tragic irony. What has eroded women’s trust in maternity care is the fear that if something goes wrong, they or their baby could come to harm in a system that has too often prioritised achieving a ‘normal birth’ over a safe outcome. That is not irrational anxiety. It is a rational choice”

patientsafetyfirst.wordpress.com/2026/10/30/cae…
patientsafetyfirst.wordpress.com Caesarean rates have soared but reviving the campaign for ‘normal birth’ would be the worst... In a decade, the share of babies born by caesarean in England has risen from roughly one in four to nearly one in two. Some blame the push for safer care and argue that inquiry reports exposing rep…
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