The growing number of unvaccinated pregnant women with Covid on labour wards is pushing some maternity services to the brink, NHS doctors have warned.
Senior midwives and obstetricians have revealed that units in certain areas are in a ‘crisis situation’, where already time-stretched staff are being forced to abandon healthy women mid-labour in order to tend to the complex needs of Covid-positive expectant mothers.
There have been problems separating Covid-positive women in birth units from those without the infection, and