Troubled maternity service still beset by problems - BBC investigation

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BBC News hears concerns from families and staff that problems continue at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.

Stacie Goddard's baby Jamie is a bouncing one month old - but at one point she feared he would not surviveMaternity care at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust is still beset by problems, a BBC investigation has found.

Stacie, who lost her first child at 22 weeks, says she was left for half an hour not knowing whether her baby had survived."Obviously, having lost a baby before, straightaway, that was the first thing I thought was another one… another one's gone."The midwifery course run by the nearby Canterbury Christ Church University has recently failed to gain accreditation from its regulator, in part because student midwifes were being left unsupervised while working at the trust.

"Those are things that that could actually be improved with the right training. And we're not seeing that on the front line. We're not seeing it quickly enough."Just six months after the Kirkup review was launched, Sara Verge called the QEQM hospital as she was worried about the lack of movement from one of the identical twins she was expecting.

A letter from the trust eight months later said the advice to stay at home was "contrary to the triage guidelines which very clearly state that any alteration in movements is an indication for a clinical review on the same day".

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