Health secretary announces move after Amos review finds childbirth and neonatal care in need of ‘urgent reform’ Analysis: Transparency, standards and a new commissioner – but does maternity review go far enough? A powerful maternity commissioner will be appointed to push through an urgent transformation of childbirth care in England after a major review concluded that it had multiple failings. Ministers have bowed to growing pressure by agreeing to recruit the UK’s first commissioner for maternity and neonatal care.