Join Baby Lifeline in saying ‘Enough is enough’
Baby Lifeline is a national charity that brings together parent campaigners, experts, and professionals to improve maternity safety for all
We believe...
There have been many high-profile investigations* into maternity safety within NHS Trusts, which have produced enough stringent recommendations and enough clarity around immediate and essential actions. We now need to focus on making those well- informed improvements to maternity services across the UK.
At Baby Lifeline, we believe it’s time to start putting these lessons into practice and supporting professionals to do so. Through our #enoughisenough campaign, we’re calling for everyone who cares about maternity services to join us in pledging to take individual and collective action.
Our aim is to bring families, midwives, obstetricians, neonatologists, obstetric anaesthetists, GPs, paramedics, and everybody interested in the safer care of mothers, birthing people, and babies together with a shared aim: to put learning into action. Every report is an opportunity to improve care and to save lives.
Share your pledge
Please support our campaign by making your #enoughisenough pledge. How will you put your own learning into action to improve maternity safety? What steps will you take to ensure the findings of the various investigations lead to improvements in care?
You can share the action you’re promising to take – however big or small – by printing out your #enoughisenough pledge card, writing your personal pledge, and sharing it with us on Twitter, where we’re @babylifeline, or or sending a photo to sara@babylifeline.org.uk
Alternatively, you complete this form, and we will share your pledge for you!
Thank you for joining us in saying #enoughisenough
Hear what our campaign supporters have to say
Kayleigh Griffiths, mother of three, including Pippa Griffiths, and a member of Baby Lifeline’s Family Voices Group.
Eddie Morris, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Chair of Baby Lifeline’s Multi-Professional Advisory Panel (MPAP).
Sandra Igwe, Author, Founder of The Motherhood Group, Co-Chair of the National Inquiry into Racial Justice in Maternity Care, and a member of Baby Lifeline’s Family Voices Group.
Share your pledge today
Pledge your support to #enoughisenough
The investigations
- Baby Lifeline's Honorary President, midwife Donna Ockenden, led the review of maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, which was published in March this year
- In September 2022, she was tasked with leading an Independent Review into Maternity Services at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Meanwhile, Dr Bill Kirkup, also a Baby Lifeline Honorary President, chaired the independent investigation into the maternity and neonatal services provided by East Kent University NHS Foundation Trust, the findings of which are due to be published on 19 October 2022
- He previously led ‘The Morecambe Bay Investigation’ into maternity and neonatal services in University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, published in 2015
