We welcome today’s Birth Trauma Inquiry report, Listen to Mums: Ending the Postcode Lottery on Perinatal Care, and our thoughts are with the families and maternity professionals that shared their experiences with the panel.
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Baby Lifeline has contributed to a BBC Panorama documentary called ‘Midwives Under Pressure’, which airs at 8pm on BBC One on 29th January 2024. The documentary highlights “serious concerns” about maternity services in one NHS trust, after whistleblowers approached the BBC. Baby Lifeline’s research on wider national issues in maternity services has been included in
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MBRRACE-UK has published its latest maternal mortality figures, covering the period 2020-2022. The data show that the proportion of mums and birthing people dying during or shortly after pregnancy is the highest for twenty years. This is the case even when deaths due to COVID-19 were excluded. The figures illustrate an urgent need for government
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The latest MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Confidential Enquiry reports, released on 14th December 2023, investigate stillbirths and neonatal deaths between 1st July 2019 and 31st December 2019. The reports compare care received by Asian, Black and White women and birthing people whose baby was stillborn or died in the 28 days following birth. The MBRRACE team also
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Today the Maternity Safety Alliance – a parent-led campaign group, including bereaved parents and grandparents – is calling for a public inquiry into maternity safety in England. This is another opportunity for the government to listen to the voices of families who have experienced unthinkable tragedies. Baby Lifeline urges the government to act quickly and thoughtfully on
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MBRRACE-UK has recently published its latest surveillance reports which examine mortality for mothers in 2019-2021, and babies in January-December 2021. For both mothers and babies, leading causes of death remain the same as previous surveillance reports.
Baby Lifeline is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2023 MUM Awards, and wants to hear from families across the UK who have an inspiring story to share.
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This year’s National Maternity Safety Conference follows hot on the heels of the sold-out maternity safety conference in September of last year. We’ve put together a programme which aims to provide a tonic to the current unsettled and overloaded maternity and neonatal system.
Saving babies’ lives 2023: A report on Progress shows that more should be done to reduce preventable deaths, pregnancy loss, and inequalities in outcomes.
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Baby Lifeline will join twelve other pregnancy, baby, and parent charities in giving evidence as a Core Participant to Module Three of the Covid-19 Inquiry.
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