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Amy Heath, medical negligence partner at law firm Stewarts, said she was seeing a growing number of cases where private maternity scans had failed to detect abnormalities. She said: "There is a dangerous misconception that private healthcare is safer or more thorough than NHS services. "Families should be able to trust that they are receiving quality care. They deserve transparency and proper safeguards." A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said it was committed to ensuring there was appropriate regulation for all health and social care professionals. "The regulation of healthcare professionals is kept under review to ensure patient safety remains paramount [and] we will carefully consider any proposals from professional bodies regarding this," they said.
