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By Tim Hanlon People can now find out here how their hospital’s maternity unit compares nationally after more than half have been found to be “failing”. An interactive map gives hospital ratings by the Care Quality Commission in a scale from outstanding to inadequate. And worryingly of the 101 NHS maternity units inspected over the past 12 months, 55% are considered substandard. Of those, 39 have been given a rating of “requires improvement”, while 17 have been deemed “inadequate”. In comparison, 41 maternity units have been rated as “good”, and just four are considered “outstanding” – Royal S…

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