NHS is criticized for not registering the sweat of the people who are paid for the care of poor motherhood, despite the black, Asian women and minorities who suffer from greater damage during childbirth.
Health experts, Patient safety activists and lawyers claim Ethnic discrepancies in maternity care are so flavored that NHS bodies in England should start collecting the details of people who take legal action to help ensure improvement of services.
The gap appeared in NHS data when Lime Solicits, a London -based law company, submitted freedom of information requests to NHS England, individual health funds, and NHS solution, the body that deals with demands for medical neglect against hospitals.
He asked about the number of people who filed a lawsuit against the birth of the salvation-the death of a child 24 weeks before pregnancy-between 2012-13 and 2022-23, the number of damage, as well as the sweat and nationality of the demands.
But all NHS bodies told Al -Ler lawyers in their responses that they had not registered race or the nationality of those who started a legal issue that claims medical negligence. The company said this leaves a “horrific blind spot” in collecting service data.
Neil Clayton, a medical negligence partner, said that NHS’s failure to ensure that such information was “deeply worried.” He could hinder his efforts to discover “anxiety patterns of care failure” and improve the experience of maternity services for Bame families.
“Given Racial variations are well documented in maternity care This lack of tracking is simply unacceptable. Patients and their families deserve transparency, and without this information, it is impossible to press for meaningful improvements in care. “
“The absence of sweat data is a flagrant omission that undermines efforts to address inequality and ensure accountability in the health care system,” Clayton added.
Black women in the UK are likely to die approximately four times during pregnancy or during birth from their white counterparts. Black children are likely to die before they reach 24 weeks of pregnancy.
“There is evidence that those who suffer from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to experience poor health care. This can lead to medical negligence. So it is assumed that NHS does not collect any data and sexual data better to understand the drivers of the link,” said Paul Weng, CEO of taking charitable measures for patient safety against medical accidents.
Witang added that NHS did not register such details about the identity of the people who had complained about the care they also received and you should start doing this.
Professor Habib Naqafi, CEO of NHS Ethnic and Health ObservatoryHe said if health care decisions are based on incomplete evidence, “Health interventions will continue to leave our most irreversible and bad marginalized societies.”
“This means that NHS is still blind in its attempts to meet the legal and moral obligations to address health inequality,” Naqafi said.
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare said that the government wants to see a better collection of data as part of the efforts made to address “stark inequality of women and infants.”
A NHS spokesman said: “No woman should face bad care because of her race or background and better data is necessary to understand where and how we need to intervene. We are taking immediate measures to ensure improvement of powers from how to collect data so that we can determine and reduce inequality,” a NHS spokesman said.