By Anastasia Shubareva-Epshtein

With Wes Streeting stepping down as Health Secretary, there is a real danger that progress on maternity reform stalls yet again.

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Every change in leadership at the Department of Health resets the conversation. A new Health Secretary arrives, priorities shift, briefings begin again, and the machinery of government disappears back into months of reviews, consultations and investigations. Meanwhile, women continue to wait for a maternity system that is safe, properly funded and fit for purpose.

That is what makes this moment so worrying.

To be fair to Streeting, he inherited a broken system and, unlike many politicians before him, he publicly acknowledged that it was broken. But naming a crisis and fixing one are two very different things.

The biggest concern is that maternal mortality rose on his watch. At the same........

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