No room for a bed
Sarah Smith: There isn't the space in special care units to cope with Britain's high premature birth rate.
Five steps to improve care
Leader: Today The Observer launches its Better Birth Campaign, our drive to give mothers a better experience of one of the most life-changing events. We hope the government and the hospitals concerned will listen.
Fears for health of new mothers
Women are being sent home from maternity hospitals too quickly, with many leaving just six hours after giving birth.
Hospital rumbles undercover BBC reporter
12.15pm: The BBC was today accused of wasting NHS time after a Panorama reporter was discovered working undercover in a Suffolk hospital. By John Plunkett.
Hewitt’s £3bn deal to double use of private sector in NHS angers union
NHS to more than double its use of private sector to operate on patients on waiting lists in England.
Emergency on the wards
The Royal College of Nursing this week sounded alarm bells over growing staff shortages in Britain's hospitals. So how are our nurses getting by - and how is it affecting patients? Lucy Atkins finds out.
The politics of childbirth
Overly medicalised? Starved of resources? Understaffed? Our story yesterday about one family's tragic experience of childbirth on the NHS has focused attention on maternity services in Britain. But are things really that bad? Sarah Boseley asks some of those on the frontline if they have faith in the system.