Basildon Maternity Hospital: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND OF THE ORGANIZATION.......................................................................................3
ISSUES.......................................................................................................................................................3
CHALLENGES.........................................................................................................................................4
SOLUTION................................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES.............................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care is that area of the society for which hospitals, health care units and
camps are established in different locations for providing health care services. It is important to
keep the people healthy and encourage them to lead a good and healthy life without any diseases
or issues (Maeremans and et. al.,2018). This report is prepared on Basildon Maternity hospital
which is a government hospital and based in United Kingdom. This report includes background
information along with issues, challenges and solutions to such hurdles.
BACKGROUND OF THE ORGANIZATION
Basildon Maternity hospital is government hospital situated in Mid and South Essex of
United Kingdom. It is established specifically for the mothers and their infants as the name
suggest. It is operated by NHS Foundation trust. It provides number of services ranging from
initial care assessment along with ambulance facility, prenatal diagnostic screening, perinatal
mental health, antenatal care services and counselling services. Also, delivery suite, home birth
and midwife led birthing unit are some other services added to the existing ones. In May 2020,
an anonymous whistle blower raised concerns about the safety at the hospital when six incidents
occurred at the hospital which involved newly born babies.
ISSUES
Every health care unit or hospital goes through many challenges in the total span of its
existence. Basildon Maternity hospital is no exception to that and the two issues in this hospital
are as follows:
1. There have been six incidents in which causing risk to the lives of the newly born babies
due to the poor health condition and cooling therapy affecting their health adversely. An
unidentified whistle blower raised the alarm for the same by filing ton the Care Quality
Commission (CQC) by mentioning the risk of safety at the hospital (Dyer, 2020).
Together with this, there have been number of issues related to discrimination made for
the minority black women who were seeking the medical treatment in the hospital. Since,
it is a government hospital, the charges of the services are often low as compared to any
other private institutions. But the way the staff treated minority black women is not at all
soothing to the eyes or peaceful to the mind. Black women have faced the issue of