Concern over women’s safety at BPAS abortion clinics persists after a damning Care Quality Commission review.
Three abortion clinics were put into special measures and served with enforcement notices after the Care Quality Commission (CQC) gave them “inadequate” ratings. The BPAS facilities were in Merseyside, Doncaster and Middlesbrough, all failing to provide safety to women.
An array of discrepancies within the clinics, ranging from the inadequate safeguarding of women to the lack of other appropriate measures in place, were exposed.
The reports stated that in some instances, women were being transferred to hospitals and other clinics due to complications following an abortion. In Doncaster, 12 women were transferred to the local NHS acute trust due to complications between December 2020 and May 2021.
One CQC report revealed that the Middlesbrough BPAS clinic was storing medicines, issued for pateints, in unsafe conditions.
The report stated: “The service did not always store medicines at safe temperatures and medicines issued for patients to take home were not correctly labelled."
The centres have been given six months to enforce proper safety measures or have their licences revoked.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “The findings from these reports are damning, exposing the abortion industry’s total disregard for mothers and their unborn children.
“Regularly, the alarming ways in which women’s safety is put at risk by endemic malpractice, by BPAS and others, are being exposed.
“The barbaric circumstances of these facilities are a disgrace and should not be allowed to exist in a civilised society. When will the Government wake up and take action to stop this?
“Action is required now.”
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