The Care Quality Commission raised concerns over staffing and patient experience in the NHS.
NHS maternity and ambulance services are getting worse, with a rise in the number ranked inadequate for safety, a damning regulator report has found.
The CQC has been looking closely at NHS maternity and has now inspected 73% of acute hospital services. The report further pointed to issues with governance and lack of oversight from NHS boards, “delays to care and lack of one-to-one care during labour, as well as poor communication with women and difficult working relationships between staff groups”.
In its wide-ranging report, the CQC warned that healthcare risks becoming a two-tier system, with society divided into those who can pay for care and those who cannot. The CQC added: “People may also be forced to make difficult financial choices. We heard from someone who receives benefits who resorted to extracting their own tooth because they were unable to find an NHS dentist.
Inspectors pointed to a lack of beds, meaning people can be “cared for in inappropriate environments – often in emergency departments. Kate Terroni, interim deputy chief executive at the CQC, said there is a “deteriorating picture in maternity services”, adding that women are not always listened to.
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