We welcome another new site to ASPIRE! Delighted to announce we have opened in South Warwickshire FT. We very much look forward to working with you. R&D at SWFT @MaternitySwft @joWilliams1956 Sarah noble Dr Claire Feeley Carol Kingdon 💙 Gill @Anastasia_Top13

So with *4* sites now open, we can tell you that Chorley & Royal Preston have completed/recruited 41/55 participants, Liverpool Women's University Hospital 16/55, Royal Surrey Maternity Unit 7/55. This is excellent for the study, to determine safe and personalised care during emergency situations. A big thank you!

Recruitment update! Our four sites are working incredibly hard with outstanding figures of completed and/or booked interviews: Lancashire Teaching R&I with 52/55, Liverpool Women's University Hospital 27/55, Royal Surrey 11/55 and SWYTResearch 14/55! At this rate, these four sites will be closed end April 👏

Happy International Day of the Midwife to all the midwives I have the privilege of working with ASPIRE Covid-19, @UCLanResearch Liverpool Women's University Hospital and my midwives. Thank you.

Recruitment update! Big congratulations to Lancashire Teaching R&I Chorley & Royal Preston for completing all 55 interviews. Also going really well is Liverpool Women's University Hospital with 40/55 and @nhsswft 27/55 and Royal Surrey 26/55 interviews completed. Exciting news, we have site 5 opening soon 👏

Massive achievement in challenging circumstances!

Please join us for our upcoming THRIVE Postgraduate Seminar Day on 25 May! FREE REGISTRATION: Please sign up on Eventbrite: Tuesday, 25th May 9.30am – 3.00pm: eventbrite.co.uk/e/thrive-postg… Keynote presentations from Katrina Rigby, discussing ASPIRE Covid-19, and many more!

Great to welcome Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to the ASPIRE study. The site is open and 3 interviews already completed with another 3 booked. A fab start! James Harris Victoria Cochrane MBE Dr Claire Feeley Carol Kingdon 💙 @Anastasia_Top13 UCLan THRIVE Research Centre

Fantastic response to the launch of ASPIRE Covid-19 in University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust - amazing to see professionals and families so keen to share their experiences of #pregnancy and #birth during the #COVID19 #pandemic. You are helping to shape #safe and #personalised care ❤ UCLan THRIVE Research Centre

Call to #midwives #NurseTwitter #medtwitter #paramedics #alliedhealthprofessionals #AHPs working for/with Plymouth University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Please contact [email protected] if interested in taking part, interview times available this week and next!

With just a couple of weeks left to get involved, the ASPIRE Team would like to hear from #women and #birthingpeople who had their #maternitycare with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at any time during the #COVID19Pandemic Pls contact [email protected] ASAP, we would love to hear your experiences!

Amazing work from University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Research Team - 29 interviews will be complete by end of this week. Big thanks to staff giving up precious time on rest days to get involved 🙏 #Women & #birthingpeople sharing crucial insights. 5 staff and 8 service users still needed!

In the first of a series on this ground-breaking study, @Kingdon_carol and colleagues discuss the role of research midwives and midwifery research and the ASPIRE (Achieving Safe and Personalised maternity care In Response to Epidemics) study. /5 👉 all4maternity.com/the-aspire-stu…

Feeling proud of everyone delivering ASPIRE Covid-19 and the research midwives sharing their learning in this six-part ThePractisingMidwife series including Chorley & Royal Preston Liverpool Women's University Hospital Committed to build on these learnings @wuthnhs with WUTHresearch team and @NIHRCRN_nwcoast

So very proud to have been working with such an incredible team on the ASPIRE Covid-19 project for the past 7 months. Dr Claire Feeley Carol Kingdon 💙 @Anastasia_Top13 Sarah Cordey

With the 45th interview completed yesterday, Heidi Hollands Sarah Cordey and Deborah Powney have collected all their qual data in just 5 weeks 🎉 huge thanks to all participants & ASPIRE Covid-19 researchers involved for their passion and dedication 🙌

ASPIRE Work Package 2: “Never waste a crisis”. A commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic as a driver for innovation in maternity care” has been published in BJOG: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Paper in pre-print Authorea “There’s only so much you can be pushed”: a commentary on the magnification of the maternity staffing crisis by the 2020/21 covid-19 pandemic authorea.com/users/457314/a…

An exciting new project has created a hub to provide a space to share information and resources relating to #maternity and #neonatal care. UCLan Health & Wellbeing ASPIRE Covid-19 UK Research and Innovation Find out more 🔽 ow.ly/hZGE50L7SfU