Mental health minister Maria Caulfield said the government are making maternity care a priority after a parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma found "poor care is all frequently tolerated as normal, and women are treated as an inconvenience". "We're putting in resources now and we've already got some of those resources up and running. For example, the perinatal pelvic health services - half of England already have those services and the other half will have it by the end of the year," she said. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We absolutely recognise that and that's why it's a priority area for our Year 2
00:04 in Women's Health Strategy which was announced by the Secretary of State a few
00:07 months ago. We're putting in resources now, we've got some of those resources
00:09 up and running, so for example the perinatal pelvic health services are
00:13 about half of England have got those services already, the other half will be
00:16 in place by the end of the year. It really looks at those at-risk women who are
00:21 likely to experience tears during their labour and we estimate we could
00:26 reduce those women experience by about 20% but then better look after those who
00:31 do have that experience in terms of both their physical and mental health.