Black women in England still face bad results in maternity care due to regular racism, as well as failure to drive and collect data, according to a group of deputies.
Throughout the UK, black women are more likely to die than twice birth compared to their white counterparts, while children born to black mothers are at increased risk of salvation.
A report issued by the Health and Social Care Committee found that these bad results are inappropriately in the care of motherhood for black women were due to a group of factors, including the physical failure of accountability and leadership, with black women’s concerns “are not taken seriously” due to bias, stereotypes and racist assumptions.
“The care of the safe mother of black women depends on the workforce that listens to her needs, respects and respects her,” according to Bolite Hamilton, a deputy in favor of Birmingham Ordington and the committee chairman. “Driving should be effective, but it should also be responsible. This report proves that this is not currently.”
She added that the next investigation of the government in maternity care in NHS should be a “turning point” for black women in particular. “The structural racism built in maternity services fails over and repeated black women. She added that admitting this and addressing racist variations in the results of the mother must be one of the basic goals of the investigation.
The committee also found that, given these variations, it was “unbeatable” that cultural competence training was not mandatory for NHS employees who work through maternity services. They urged the government, the royal college of midwives, the Nursing Council, and the kiss to make training compulsory for all employees, and that the training be informed directly of the black women experience.
Also, the collection of insufficient data was cited as a factor of ethnic disparities through maternity care, as the committee found that a large number of individual NHS boxes failed to record this information continuously, and that this deficiency in strong data led to a “blind system for its failures.” As a result, the committee also urged the government to accelerate the development of the mother’s illustration index, which it has already committed to its production.
The report comes after the previous results reached by the group of five x more, which found that nearly half of the pregnant black women raised fears of healthcare professionals during labor, as half of them said that their fears were not properly addressed.
Tinuke Awe, co -founder of Five X Mone, said that the committee’s report was welcomed, and that there is an “urgent need to address regular failures in maternity care” for black women.
“For a long time, black women have been ignored in maternity care, and the recommendations mentioned in this report highlight that the change is late. We now believe that it is time to act. Reforming black women, repairing it for all women,” he added.
Claire Livingstone, head of politics and practice at the Royal College of midwives, said that black women are in greater danger during pregnancy and childbirth was a “shame”.
“The recommendations mentioned in this report must be behaved urgently, and every person should work in maternity services together to address these horrific variations,” said Levingston. “This should not be the lack of inequality in England today.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare said: “Racism in any way is completely unacceptable and we are determined to reduce the horrific variations that this report addresses,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
“We are already taking measures to improve maternity care, including the launch of a program to combat discrimination, train thousands of midwives, and to provide new standards to address the main causes of maternal deaths.”