Home fetal heart monitors can help prospective parents bond with their babies, but do they offer false reassurance when things go wrong? In this week’s podcast Rebecca Coombes hears a cautionary tale from Abhijoy Chakladar, from Princess Royal Hospital in West Sussex.

Also this week, the NHS Modernisation Agency has been tasked with improving care for patients. Andrew Hutchings, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, tells us about his analysis of how effective the agency’s adult critical care initiative has been.

David Payne takes us through this week’s news.

See also;
Evaluation of modernisation of adult critical care services in England
Dangers of listening to the fetal heart at home