NHS maternity services are in crisis: everyone knows that. In fact, everyone has known a lot more than that for at least a decade. There have been so many reports highlighting the precise nature of this crisis that the health service and government now have 748 recommendations that they could implement to improve care. Instead of implementing them, though ministers are commissioning more reports, just in case the next one uncovers the thing that everyone else has missed.

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Baroness Amos’s latest interim report from her own investigation has not managed to uncover that one big thing that would solve the NHS maternity crisis, though it does come close to pointing out the underlying problem that allows all the others to continue. It asks in its opening paragraphs why, ten years after the government plan for maternity services called ‘Better Births’ was published,........

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