the care quality commission says there is good quality care in the industry but it has a "growing concerniness is booming. early in the pandemic, the nhs asked women not to bring partners to scans, leading some to turn elsewhere. but more than 200 businesses now offer a solution. reassurance scans. hope thought she'd struggle to have children because of previous ill health. hey, how are you doing? she says it made her especially anxious when she became pregnant. ijust couldn't believe it, it was like such a big gift and then i thought, what if this doesn't last? she is now six months pregnant and has had five private scans, costing between £60 and £100 each. it has been the most relieving experience ever. i'd had the most sleepless nights before just with pure worry, so when you come out of that and know everything is ok, you're like, "phew!" you feel pretty relieved for maybe a good couple of days up to a week and then the cycle starts again. scans are carried out by sonographers. it is not a regulated profession like being a midwife. but the growing popularity of gender reveal parties i

the care quality commission is responsible for regulating the services companies provide, but we foundnot been inspected since opening four years ago and learned it doesn't review samples of scans as part of inspections. in a statement, it says there is good quality care in the industry as a whole but it has a growing concern. the government says the majority of sonographers are qualified nurses or radiographers, experts in interpreting imagery say regulation of sonographers is needed. you're doing the most difficult scans at the trickiest time for the most anxious group of people on a workforce who do not necessarily know their level of skills, their level of expertise and what training they've actually had. many staff at these companies working as radiographers and midwives will be regulated, so why does any of this matter? it matters now because of the massive increase in these companies. if you said to most members of the public, do you realise that some of the people scanning you actually do not have an easy way of demonstrating that expertise? i think the mums would be surprised.

the care quality commission says there is good quality care in the industry but it has a "growing concern salford to record her baby‘s genderfor a party and check its well—being. we have learned the company identified a serious abnormality incompatible with life. but rather than refer her to hospital immediately and provide a medical report, the woman was told the baby‘s head couldn‘t be fully seen and recommended to book an nhs anomaly scan. it was absolutely immoral, it was disgusting. they let this poor girl leave and go to a gender reveal party, name the baby, open gifts and that baby couldn't live. the woman only found out when she showed the scan images to a family friend who is an experienced sonographer. i had to break the news that that baby couldn‘t live and i had to do that over the telephone, and they were hysterical. the company apologised at the time. it says the sonographer left shortly afterwards and the incident led to best practice being reinforced. but these leaked internal documents show that three spina bifida cases were also missed in a single week in may. the compan

the care quality commission is responsible for regulating the services companies provide, but we foundraphers are qualified nurses or radiographers, but experts in interpreting imagery say regulation of sonographers is needed. you're doing the most difficult scans at the trickiest time for the most anxious group of people on a workforce who do not necessarily know their level of skills, their level of expertise and what training they've actually had. many staff at these companies working as radiographers and midwives will be regulated, so why does any of this matter? it matters now because of the massive increase in these companies. if you said to most members of the public, "do you realise that some of the people scanning you actually do not have an easy way of demonstrating that expertise?" i think the mums would be surprised. problems in pregnancy are rare, but women who have experienced them say it's vital private scans do not lead to false reassurance. it has put an effect on mine and my husband's relationship because it's something that... i don't know, could it happen again? wil