Rosie Taylor

Analysts believe maternity and neonatal units need an extra £250m to £600m a year to reach safe standards after reports warn understaffing is fuelling the crisis

Ric Hart, 42, lost his wife, Jade, hours after their first baby was born. He explains how sharing his pain has helped him — and others

The TV chef Dipna Anand talks for the first time about enduring 13 baby losses, and how working became a way of 'handling the pain'

Thousands of women have had their care interrupted because of building or equipment breakdown in only three years, a review by NHS England warns

Some six in ten who died in pregnancy, birth or the postnatal period between 2022 and 2024 could have been saved with better care - an all-time high since records began in 2009.

Six in 10 women who died could have been saved with better care, investigation reveals

Four weeks of fresh food, steep hills and a slower pace of life in the mountains of Liguria left me 3lb lighter and noticeably fitter

Demand for the procedures has soared by 30 per cent in two years, especially among older women. As Britain’s first purpose-built abortion clinic opens this month to cope with record numbers of patients, Rosie Taylor finds out what is behind the rise

Emmie and Ryan's son Quinn was 2 days old when he passed away in Nottingham. The couple say key evidence was lost, so they will never know why he died

Campaigners call for overhaul of regulatory bodies as maternal death rates in the UK rise by 32 per cent since 2018

Forget reserved and polite, UK women are actually the angriest in Europe, a global study has found.

From eating more purple fruit and veg to avoiding large bowls of pasta, Dr Zoe Astroulakis shares her simple lifestyle habits to protect the heart

As health secretary, he called the state of maternity services a ‘cause for national shame’. Yet one in four women still report a negative birth experience, and around 300,000 are estimated to have suffered harm during his tenure. Resigning now is just another example of a broader pattern of deprioritising women’s concerns, campaigners tell Rosie Taylor

From increasing your fibre intake to never bringing your phone into the bathroom

Health professionals claim parents are being misled by sweetened ‘milks’ such as soya and oat which claim to be healthy but lack nutrients growing bodies need

The disparity emerged despite Wes Streeting’s promise to stop treating women as ‘second-class citizens’ under his gender-specific health strategies

Dry white rolls, a spoonful of sweetcorn – my son's UK school dinners are abysmal, and the Government's plans to improve don't go far enough

At the height of Covid, hundreds of cancer patients had mastectomies without the reconstruction that would normally accompany them. They would eventually get the surgery, they were told – but for many that promise feels more meaningless by the day

Prof Mick Thacker on what he believes current treatments are getting wrong and how we can ‘reprogram’ our bodies to stay active

The viral infection leaves millions with chronic pain, increased stroke risk, and lifelong nerve damage—yet vaccination rates remain dangerously low.