A woman had to travel 40 miles (64km) to Leicester during labour to access maternity care
Safely delivered: Barbara and William Job with their baby son, Oliver, who was born on Tuesday
Her mother-in-law, Rica Scott, said attempts to find a suitable hospital in Cambridgeshire failed on Sunday.Mrs Job's birth plan specified Peterborough City Hospital and when her waters broke she rang the unit there. She told the BBC: "They had to face a very long drive for well over an hour with her in incredible pain to get to Leicester hospital where she was admitted".Rica Scott said her daughter-in-law asked her to speak out because they did not want other families to face the same situation
In one recording, she told her relatives: "so Peterborough and Hinchingbrooke have not got enough midwives to be able to help us with our birth safely.showing more than half of England's maternity units had received a negative rating for safety, based on the most recently-published Care Quality Commission reports.
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