I spoke in this year’s International Women’s Day debate. This year’s theme is “accelerate action”. I focused my remarks on health, one sadly neglected policy area where this is especially needed. From worsening maternity care to ongoing shortcomings around the...
Recent research from the charity Bliss has highlighted the severe shortage of neonatal accommodation in hospitals. Parents of babies requiring such care are routinely expected to leave them in hospital overnight, sometimes for weeks or months at a time. This research...
I was at King’s College NHS Trust for the official opening of their Peace Bereavement Suite, designed for bereaved families who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death. It is named in honour of a former midwife at the Trust, Peace, who sadly died in...
I supported the launch of a very important joint report from two pregnancy and baby loss charities, Sands and Tommy’s entitled Saving Babies’ Lives Progress Report. This report pulls together data on the impact of pregnancy and baby loss across the UK for the first...
On Sunday afternoon, I joined midwives in our NHS to march on Parliament and highlight the emergency facing UK maternity care. Most people in modern Britain owe our lives to a midwife but failures to address chronic staff shortages and invest in maternity services now...
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