Health Secretary Andrew Lansley promised a series of measures to improve maternity care in May, including offering women one named midwife to oversee their care during and after pregnancy and better support for those with postnatal depression.
But a Royal College of Midwives (RCM) survey of 1,800 women carried out in July found two thirds of women do not know the name of their midwife and a third said they always saw a different midwife throughout the pregnancy.
Support for women was also questioned, with a fifth of those surveyed feeling unsupported during labour and birth, and only 65 per cent feeling supported after the birth.
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