Nicola Wise, the CQC’s director of secondary and specialist care, insists the fight to tackle health inequalities in the health sector “must be driven further” as a new report reveals around half of maternity units inspected between August 2022 and December 2023 were rated as requiring improvement or inadequate.
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00:00So, as I mentioned, this is a call to action.
00:03What we have found is a series of national challenges.
00:06So this is beyond just one, this isn't just one or two services, this is our patterns
00:11that we've seen across different parts of the country.
00:14And what we've found is that there are issues in terms of oversight of maternity services,
00:20in terms of culture, and the listening to women when they've got concerns, listening
00:25to staff when they are trying to raise concerns.
00:28We've also seen that we haven't seen enough progress in tackling health inequalities.
00:33We've seen some really good examples in some organisations, but that hasn't gone far enough,
00:40we have to, that has to be driven further.