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Baby Lifeline urges UK to donate unused medical equipment to Ukraine

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Published 2 February 2023   Baby Lifeline is calling on hospitals, hospices, and clinics, to donate equipmentthey no longer use, or are about to replace/upgrade, to its Ukraine Appeal, asthe war enters its second year.   The maternity safety charity and its supporters have already provided more than £500,000 of essential medical aid to health professionals […]

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Baby Lifeline’s Community Midwife Bags on BBC Countryfile

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Baby Lifeline’s Community Midwife Bags made an appearance on BBC One’s Countryfile yesterday (Sunday 15 January 2023), as midwives were filmed getting ready to attend out-of-hospital births. Countryfile covers the “people, places and stories making news in the British Countryside”, and this week’s programme featured members Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s maternity team, who spoke about their

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Family Voices Co-Chair lands legal role

Baby Lifeline News, Personal Stories /

Nadine Montgomery, Co-chair of Baby Lifeline’s Family Voices Group, has joined L&M MediLaw as a trainee solicitor. Her appointment to the Glasgow-based medical negligence team marks the next stage in Nadine’s work to help others, after already fighting for more than 15 years before winning her landmark legal case against NHS Lanarkshire in London’s Supreme

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National State of Patient Safety 2022 highlights pressures on maternity

Maternity News /

The ‘National State of Patient Safety 2022: What we know about avoidable harm in England’ report, was published on Tuesday 29 November 2022, produced by Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation, and supported by the charity Patient Safety Watch. Commenting on its findings, Sara Ledger, Head of Research and Development at Baby Lifeline,

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Video: Equipment is delivered to Ukraine hospital

Baby Lifeline News, Ukraine Appeal /

Published 29 November 2022  Watch as Baby Lifeline’s specialist birth bags and other vital maternity safety equipment is delivered to a maternity hospital in one of the most dangerous areas of Ukraine, as part of the charity’s Ukraine Appeal. Since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022, Baby Lifeline and its supporters have donated

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Call the Midwife actress meets Jersey midwives

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Published 25 November 2022   Call the Midwife actress Linda Bassett met midwives at Jersey General Hospital’s Maternity Unit yesterday (24 November 2022), in celebration of her leading role as Patron of maternity safety charity Baby Lifeline and Ambassador for its Ukraine Appeal. Linda, who stars as Nurse Phyllis Crane in BBC One’s long-running period drama series about a group of midwives working in

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MBRRACE highlights need for individualised care

Maternity News /

The key findings of the MBRRACE-UK ‘Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care Core report: Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2018-20’, published today (Thursday 10 November 2022): Sara Ledger, Head of Research and Development at Baby Lifeline, said: “Today’s MBRRACE-UK report makes for extremely sad

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Andrea Fraser arrives home from Ukraine mission

Baby Lifeline News, Ukraine Appeal /

Published on 7 November 2022 Scottish human rights lawyer and humanitarian volunteer Andrea Fraser arrived back in Edinburgh on Saturday (5 November 2022) after completing her solo round-trip to Ukraine to deliver lifesaving maternity equipment for use by midwives and doctors working in Ukraine’s frontline areas. Thirty-one-year-old Fraser, who lives in Edinburgh and is originally

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