{"id":82165,"date":"2025-12-10T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82165"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:14:51","slug":"hungry-mothers-and-dirty-wards-maternity-care-much-worse-than-anticipated-review-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/10\/hungry-mothers-and-dirty-wards-maternity-care-much-worse-than-anticipated-review-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry mothers and dirty wards &#8211; maternity care &#8216;much worse&#8217; than anticipated, review chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2048\/cpsprodpb\/d88a\/live\/9b2cb330-d49c-11f0-b551-c948c3e8b5a0.jpg\" alt=\"A mother holds her baby upright to rest on her shoulder\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hungry mothers, dirty wards and poor care are blighting England&#8217;s maternity services while staff receive death threats for working in some units, according to a new report. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g45ev3gkdo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hungry mothers, dirty wards and poor care are blighting England&#8217;s maternity services while staff receive death threats for working in some units,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/midwife1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82166,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82165\/revisions\/82166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}