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Oxfordshire's maternity care: the findings

Oxfordshire's maternity care: the findings

Oxford University Hospitals’ maternity departments are institutionally arrogant; the buildings are dirty and barely fit for purpose; and while frontline staff care desperately about their patients, the staffing is unsustainable. The wider NHS maternity system in the UK is crumbling, insensitive, institutionally racist, discriminatory, has questionable oversight, is operationally and

Oxfordshire’s maternity care

Oxfordshire’s maternity care

Many Clarion readers will have passed through the maternity ward of the John Radcliffe Hospital, whether as an infant or a parent. It is a place with which Oxfordshire, literally, has a familial bond. But recently it hasn’t all been happy families. On Thursday, Baroness Amos published her Interim

“Don't delay”: Oxford doctor's message as he diagnoses own son with rare sarcoma

“Don't delay”: Oxford doctor's message as he diagnoses own son with rare sarcoma

Professor Dominic Furniss, a leading reconstructive surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals, found himself living every doctor's worst fear when he diagnosed his teenage son with a rare and aggressive cancer. He, and Sarcoma UK, are urging people not to delay if they see symptoms, but to seek medical