{"id":52635,"date":"2024-05-17T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T07:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/junior-doctors-talks-need-time-and-space-says-victoria-atkins\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T07:31:41","slug":"junior-doctors-talks-need-time-and-space-says-victoria-atkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/junior-doctors-talks-need-time-and-space-says-victoria-atkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior doctors talks need &#8216;time and space&#8217;, says Victoria Atkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/12A5D\/production\/_133318367_de27-1.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Junior doctors talks need &#8216;time and space&#8217;, says Victoria Atkins\" title=\"Junior doctors talks need &#8216;time and space&#8217;, says Victoria Atkins\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Recounting her own experience of giving birth to her first child, Ms Atkins said she had had &#8220;amazing care&#8221; but before the birth had been put on a ward with mothers who had had &#8220;very, very traumatic experiences&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Seeing other mums in a great deal of distress, it was quite frightening actually,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital had since &#8220;rejigged things&#8221; and there were &#8220;better services and facilities available&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it&#8217;s why for me, this is personal,&#8221; Ms Atkins said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want every woman to feel safe and happy as she goes in to give birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Someone in pain, in distress or frightened could struggle to &#8220;articulate their concerns&#8221;, so it was important hospitals had a culture of &#8220;non-defensive transparency&#8221;, she said<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour&#8217;s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting called the report &#8220;sobering&#8221; and said his party would &#8220;work in the same bipartisan spirit to deliver results&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-69022696\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recounting her own experience of giving birth to her first child, Ms Atkins said she had had &#8220;amazing care&#8221; but before the birth had been put on a ward with mothers who had had &#8220;very, very traumatic experiences&#8221;. &#8220;Seeing other mums in a great deal of distress, it was quite frightening actually,&#8221; she said. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/12A5D\/production\/_133318367_de27-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[31163,9995,12068,28,66,222,30561],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52637,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52635\/revisions\/52637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}