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  "id": 16008121,
  "title": "Thursday briefing: The crisis putting maternity units in England at risk of closure",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/thursday-briefing-the-crisis-putting-maternity-units-in-england-at",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-22T05:42:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/22/thursday-briefing-the-crisis-putting-maternity-units-in-england-at-risk-of-closure"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In today’s newsletter: rising rates of C-sections, staff shortages and years of unresolved concerns are preventing some hospitals from delivering babies safely Good morning. Over the summer, doctors in the emergency department at the North Devon district hospital in Barnstaple, one of the most remote in the UK, received a crash course on delivering a baby. Their training covered subjects nobody…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}