What ' s new in midwifery - news and statistics - 30th March 2022 (with addendum)

Several posts at once.   In this one, a Guardian story about what the Ockendon report into the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust is expected to reveal about the trust ' s avoidance of caesarean sections in an attempt to meet targets, and the subsequent neonatal deaths and injuries.Note added later the same day - the Ockendon report is out andhere is the Guardian ' s story, and thefinal report itself is here.Then,provisional statistics on births in England and Wales in 2021, which may show the effect of COVID-19 on live births, still births, gestational age, birthweight and place of birth.  This is from the Office of National Statistics.  (The heading is " provisional births " , but I am assuming the statistics are provisional, and not the births themselves!).AndNHS Digital statistics on female genital mutilation, for October - December 2021.  Thank you to the King ' s Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert for details of the two statistical publications.Last but not least,Medscape reports that the footballer David Beckham gave his Instagram account over to Dr Irnya Kondratova, head of the regional perinatal unit in Kharkiv, Ukraine. 
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