The interim report, published by the Independent Investigation into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England, highlights systemic issues facing services. While this systemic focus is welcome, the final report must be solution-focused, including defining what ‘safe care’ looks like and how this can be delivered.
We’re pleased to announce that Georgia Stevenson has been appointed as Head of the Sands & Tommy’s Joint Policy Unit.
Our second featured chart takes a closer look at the insights on our data hub around preterm births.
In this insight report, carried out by Sands and Tommy’s Maternity Consortium, we examine the systemic issues impacting access to language interpreting provision within maternity and neonatal care.
The first featured chart in this series looks at what is happening with midwife numbers in England.
After identifying key recurring themes from previous reports, we asked people working in maternity and neonatal services in the UK, and families who have experienced them, to share what they think needs to change to make progress.
This is the third Saving Babies’ Lives Progress report published by the Joint Policy Unit. The report summarises the latest data and outlines 10 key actions for policymakers.
In response to the claim that reproductive health and childbirth research receives a higher proportion of research funding than the corresponding burden of disease, we explore the limitations of metrics which compare health conditions and how they ignore the impact of pregnancy loss.