New: Maternal healthcare crisis puts Black women’s lives at risk new research finds

Campaigners say the concerns of expectant mothers are routinely ignored and the consequences are putting their lives at risk

By Sinai Fleary 🇬🇩🇻🇨

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🔎 What are the links between mental & maternal health, and what is needed to improve care access & outcomes?

📅 Read our new article by Holly Hope-Smith, Rohna Kearney, & Prof Kathryn Abel (@CWMH_UoM)

👇 Find out more:
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🗣️ Millions of households in the UK are grappling with daily hardships and are forced to choose between essentials like warmth and food.

The nation is enduring a second lost decade of living standards and politicians must engage with the severity of the situation🔽

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'Very few families are prepared for the way the state intervenes when a relative is deemed to have “lost capacity”.  I often hear people’s shock and disbelief that the state can “take over” decision-making ...'
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How many times do NHS doctors need to speak out about the ways in which we’re quietly being replaced by non-doctors, with neither the knowledge nor consent of the UK public?

It’s a patient safety scandal - happening now, driven by Department of Health and Social Care, aided & abetted by GMC.

Do you work in health in the UK? LOOOOOOk! Yay! Like, follow, share the essence out of this one! #WomenWontWheesht

I'm thrilled to share my next book - Black History for Every Day of the Year, created with my siblings, Kemi & Dr Yinka Olusoga. It includes histories of famous figures & unsung heroes from all areas of life and world culture.

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No more gatekeepers, in times ahead, only wizards? Is that a desirable outcome? (Susan Bewley I recall you first showed me 'The wizard and the gatekeeper' article)

A read that will, sadly, make sense to fellow UCL Anthropology graduates, who study inequalities & societies

I hope the issue of breast cancer screening with be dealt with in a scientifically literate manner... HealthSense

Open Justice Court of Protection Project Excellent - and open justice on the same terms for journalists and the rest of us in open hearings he says. No more having to ask the judge for tweeting permission from now on then HM Courts and Tribunals Service?

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Mr Justice Nicklin, chair of the judiciary's new Transparency and Open Justice Board, welcomes
'the hugely valuable contribution' of court bloggers

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Doctors can be socialized to cooperate in morally despicable evil, says bioethicist  - BioEdge buff.ly/3JPVIaW

8 ways to get involved with #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek in Bradford District and Craven
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'Open thi gob n talk abaart it'

A message from our members @SignHeath✉️

It’s #DeafAwarenessWeek , did you know deaf people have poorer health outcomes compared to our hearing peers?

Please share this poster with NHS services to help raise deaf awareness and improve access to health👉qrco.de/bf1qLD

'Research in psychology has supported the conclusion that people believe that they have internal, immutable essences that influence who they are. This kind of thinking is called psychological essentialism..' An effect that causes so much trouble in the world...

Well structured piece. Brings in & addresses criticisms of the review. Overall impression is of the carefulness, the professionalism of Cass's approach.

The EHRC has retained it's A Status accreditation as a National Human Rights Institution following Stonewall's request to GANHRI for a special review of the Commission.

Fantastic work by colleagues defending the Commission.

Now we move on.

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The point in the article is about female flexibility & the value of female provisioning & care of children in creating the human niche. Not a new idea in biological anthropology, but interesting angle on it in the article.

Statistics play a crucial role in inquiries from detecting anomalies to estimating infection rates and the misrepresentation of statistical evidence can have massive consequences

Read more about this in our response to House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee

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