Brilliant to join with AIMS Campaigns Team colleagues yesterday to regroup & plan for the year ahead. We've a great forward plan, which we'll be working on tirelessly (as volunteers!), playing our part to improve maternity services for all. #ImprovingMaternityServicesTogether

“Planned hospital births increase the number of complications and interventions without achieving any demonstrable benefit in terms of lower maternal or child mortality”
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Our new temporary exhibition 'In Safe Hands: The Battle for Midwifery' will open on Saturday the 1st of April. It will the history of midwifery, charting the rise of the man-midwife and the medicalisation of childbirth. You can read more over on our blog: surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2023/03/22/in-…

If you know me, and know my family…you’ll understand why seeing this Bham Women's Hosp 💙 for our women and families in the deaf community is just a thing of utter joy. #inclusion #deafaware We won’t stop trying to make it better.

#BillKirkup stating the single biggest thing to do to improve maternity safety is to end the blame culture. ⁦Donna Ockenden FRSA⁩ sharing that you cannot work safely in an atmosphere of fear. #MaternityNeonatalSummit ⁦Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡⁩ ⁦Sands Insights⁩

I want the BBC to show the true interview,” said Nawrozi. Upon arriving in England, she split the group into two teams, team A and B, who trained separately due to their different ability levels, not “because one team couldn’t play football” as the BBC article said, she said #bbc

If you have experience implementing change in midwifery, please consider participating in this research. I will be contributing! 🙏🏼

An inquiry by a charity found that pregnant black, brown and mixed ethnicity women reported feeling unsafe, their concerns being ignored or dismissed, denial of pain relief due to racial stereotypes, and pervasive microaggressions causing harm or distress
theguardian.com/society/2021/n…

Putting the boot in - it's the new Private Eye, out now!

Stephen Flynn, 'This budget is a let down.. People can't afford energy bills, mortgages, rent, food bills, and the chancellors answer is to keep energy bills high and give the richest people in society a tax break on their pensions. What planet do these people live on?' #BBCQT

Irish Prison Service: Remove Barbie Kardashian From Limerick Women's Prison - Sign the Petition! chng.it/4TksHh72 via Change.org UK

Not sure I have a lot of sympathy with the Rubbish collectors and drivers strike because they're opposed to their retirement age being raised from 57 to 59.
theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

I’ll just leave this here & say again that I fully support the ‘junior’ doctors’ strike.

Bloomin’heck! This MP Jake Berry is an idiot!

Best for Britain How is it that Fiona Bruce must clarify Stanley Johnson ‘only’ broke his wife’s nose once, but there is no clarification from the host here to point out Jake Berry is lying, about numbers, international law, & misrepresenting the UK obligations toward asylum seekers?

Well done to Junior Doctors on their mobilisation on Whitehall outside Downing St.

The Govt can't ignore that.

The BMA #JuniorDoctorsStrike #SOSNHS

Braverman: The public know that 'the financial and social costs of uncontrolled and illegal migration are unsustainable'. She's barely spoken a word and she's already talking nonsense. The financial costs are not unsustainable. Numbers are below the peaks of 2003.