Congratulations Sarah on this belated and much deserved promotion.

Patients’ concerns about substandard care are the “canary in the coal mine” but too often go ignored, the patient safety commissioner, Henrietta Hughes Patient Safety Commissioner bmj.com/content/386/bm…

MBRRACE-UK has published a State of the Nation report on perinatal deaths of babies born in 2022. This report covers all babies who died during pregnancy or within 28 days of being born. Here are the key findings 👇 MBRRACE UK NPEU-Oxford Oxford Population Health (OxPop)

RCM has renewed its call for urgent action at all levels to end racial and socioeconomic disparities. "It should not be the case in the twenty-first century that your baby’s chance of survival is determined by the colour of its skin or where it is born" buff.ly/3XXv7kg

Fabulous achievement, well done to Kirstin and Alex 👏👏👏👏👏

RCOG has responded to the latest MBRRACE-UK report on stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates from January to December 2022. Read more here: brnw.ch/21wLeAs

We are thrilled to share our outstanding National Student Survey 2024 (#NSS) results. ⭐ 8th nationally in organisation and management* ⭐ 13th in student voice* ➡️ le.ac.uk/news/2024/july… *NSS 2023 analysis on NSS 2024 data by Times Higher Education #CitizensOfChange | National Student Survey

Whooping cough (pertussis) is at alarmingly high rates. This preventable disease is potentially deadly. If you are currently pregnant, the best protection for your baby is a simple vaccine. Please talk to your midwife. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Robert Wilson I’ve said for a v long time: ‘Maternity impt to all: Everyone is born:’ We MUST now urgently improve on v slow Govt progress on Immediate & Essential Actions from Independent Maternity Review NUH Trust of more than 2 yrs ago! Swift action promised by Sajid Javid. He meant it: those following didn’t act

Many congratulations Tim van Hasselt Ruth Matthews Jen Larsen 👏🥳🎀🥂🎉

Are you a healthcare professional who has been involved in sharing information and guidance about fetal movements since 2016? We would like to hear your thoughts on how this area can be improved. Take part in the survey ➡️bit.ly/3zUAaIs #BabyLoss

✏️ Lunch & learn ✏️ Register for the first of the a new online series by NeoTRIPs! neotrips.org/event/neotrips…

We asked Hilary Cruickshank Hilary Cruickshank, Prof Samantha Johnson Samantha Johnson University of Leicester and Prof Neil Marlow UCL what follow-up support children who were born preterm need in an evidence session on 11 March. You can watch the Committee in action here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/d4…

Fantastic new 4-year post-doc position University of Leicester for someone interested in child development. Come work with our team on an exciting new European project & help develop a parent assessment of children’s cognitive development. Closing date 3rd Dec. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/1097…

Today we've launched a new requirement that all applicants must demonstrate how their research will address existing inequalities in health and social care as a condition of funding. Applicants will now be required to show how inclusion is being built into all stages of the

Well done UHL for this fabulous effort 👏👏👏

Transition from neonatal to paediatric intensive care of very preterm-born children Our paper, co-written with a parent, of interest to paeds & neonatal communities: national data on very preterm babies who go NNU directly to PICU TIMMS fn.bmj.com/content/early/…

News | MBRRACE-UK sets out key recommendations for improving the care of recent migrant women with language barriers whose babies have died 👉le.ac.uk/news/2024/dece… The MBRRACE-UK collaboration has published the results of a confidential enquiry. MBRRACE UK | TIMMS

I left nursing in 1991 when poor staffing on the neonatal unit I worked on scared me so much I thought babies would die as a result. How has this been allowed to continue for sooooo long despite numerous reports highlighting the issue???

Delighted to have been able to present a poster of our results from the PIP study parents' interviews at the RCOG World Congress this week. Huge thanks to all involved, especially the parents. Abstract available on p154 of the BJOG supplement: doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.18215.