Campaigning for: A public inquiry into University Hospitals Sussex Trust maternity services. National NHS guidelines on telephone triage for maternity.
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Our story and our call for a national public enquiry into failing maternity services in England. We need to get to the root of the problems faced by trusts across the country and make real positive steps for change. Midwives are under extraordinary pressures and need support.
“We weren’t listened to”
Katie Fowler and Robert Miller lost their daughter at two days old due to failings at a maternity unit, according to a coroner.
They are calling for a national public inquiry into the standards of care across the UK.
#Newsnight
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Clown land honestly 🤡 could be 2.5 years into a public inquiry if Labour had acted decisively when elected. Instead we'll wait a year for an action plan after a "rapid" review that didn't even analyse evidence effectively. Meanwhile death & harm continues.
NEW: Yvette Cooper tells @CommonsHealth an "interim" maternity action plan due before Christmas - we were expecting full plan
Modern service framework (national maternity standards) due middle of next year
#maternitysafety
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The @CommonsHealth committee to write to Baroness Amos amid claims MPs were misled over her maternity review after AI tool ignored evidence of normal birth ideology.
Bill Kirkup tells Sunday Times there is a "conspiracy of silence" over the issue:
thetimes.com/article/9499fb0…
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Please don't forget Sussex (I've said often I think NBI played a part in Abigail's death)
"Sussex was officially warned about its “focus on normality” in March 2019 by the then Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB)"
newstatesman.com/investigati…
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A little slow to this, but this is an excellent piece from the President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on the challenges facing maternity care. Honest and helpful.
rcog.org.uk/news/presidents-…
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The coroner's conclusion for Olivia blows my mind: Kimberley attended hospital with severe abdominal pain & blood pressure so low she was close to cardiac arrest & rather than investigate they diagnosed her with trapped wind - yet nothing could have changed the outcome?? 🤯
The parents of a baby who died at five days old are launching a civil claim against the NHS trust which runs the hospital in Brighton where she died.
More here: bbc.in/4zX0Eml
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Midwife made 'basic' errors in baby's care - panel bbc.in/3UfmFxn
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Ric Hart, 42, lost his wife, Jade, hours after their first baby was born. He explains how sharing his pain has helped him — and others thetimes.com/life-style/pare…
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The coroner ruled that if the mother had been seen on arrival, she would have had a Caesarean by at least 1.25am, rather than at 2.02am.
If this had happened, the baby “would on balance have survived”
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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A single breath should not determine whether a baby’s death can be independently investigated.
That is the whole campaign.
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Please listen to this heartbreaking interview
Stillborn babies are denied access to coroners. This means there’s an incentive not to record “signs of life” - like a breath.
If we are serious about NHS transparency - and how we can improve care - let’s start here:
I spoke to @SkyNews about why stillborn babies like Aubrey are denied access to coroners.
Parliament acted in 2019. Seven years later: no report, no timetable.
One breath should not decide whether a baby’s death can be investigated.
@SophyRidgeSky @WilfredFrost @RidgeandFrost
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Listing to the Baby Loss debate in Parliament - so many MP’s (from all side) talking about the toxic influence of ‘normal birth’ ideology - including powerful personal experiences that demonstrate just how ingrained the problem is.
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Kimberley Newark was in excruciating pain when she went to hospital but was dismissed as having trapped wind and ‘told to be quiet’ thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
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Job ad
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Can women & birthing people make informed decisions when some choices are seemingly promoted over other choices?
somersetft.tal.net/vx/lang-e…
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Baby died after mother with internal bleeding given painkillers telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
This says as much about the @CQCProf as @UHSussex. Two inspections at Worthing about a year apart. Why did they upgrade the rating in the first place? Was it on the promise of improvement that never came? Questions still to answer for the regulator here.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmkg…
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Concerns that HTA was far too gentle 2014ish-2020. Now found its teeth again (after several really nasty scandals) and there are clearly problems to be found 😮
Dead bodies exposed to view from public footpath ift.tt/5NyqLgO
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I'm glad @YvetteCooperMP has met with *someone* regarding maternity. Meanwhile, bereaved parents are still waiting for a reply to our letter. It has been almost two months and we are beginning to feel ignored - so yes, it stings a bit that celebrities are being prioritised.
.@YvetteCooperMP met @LouiseAThompson to thank her for speaking out about her traumatic birth experience and campaigning for the creation of a new Maternity and Neonatal Commissioner.
This is a new role with statutory powers to help make care safer and more consistent for all.
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It feels so unfair that former executives refused to take part in #Ockenden review. Over 500 mothers and babies suffered potentially avoidable death/ harm.
Why is this only ever ok in the #NHS and maternity. In any other walk of life they would be in jail #Nottingham
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More families call for public inquiry into maternity failings
Sussex families: "Only a judge-led legal process will establish the truth about why this happens, hold the right people & organisations to account & mean real changes can finally be made."
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…