Joint Policy Unit response to the 10 year health plan consultation
The Joint Policy Unit has responded to the Change NHS consultation, which will inform a new 10 year plan for the NHS in England.
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Towards the best: Future maternity safety ambitions to save more babies’ lives
The National Maternity Safety Ambitions – which aim to halve the 2010 rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain injuries and reduce the rate of preterm births from 8% to 6% – expire in 2025. We have considered what appropriate ambitions for reducing perinatal mortality and preterm birth could look like.
Counting miscarriages in the UK
Unlike stillbirths and neonatal deaths, the number of miscarriages which occur each year in the UK are not measured or reported. This briefing note outlines what data are currently available in each nation, what improvement work is underway and what further action is required.
Insight report: Understanding lived experience of suicidality during the perinatal period
Tommy’s and Sands Maternity Consortium led a project to engage with women and birthing people who have self-harmed, had suicidal thoughts and/or attempted suicide during the perinatal period. The aim of this work is to understand these experiences to identify how support in the perinatal period can be improved and the risk of self-harm and suicide reduced.
Learning from past reviews and reports
The Sands and Tommy’s Joint Policy Unit reviewed 30 reports into maternity and neonatal services across the UK. For each of these reports we identified recommendations relevant to saving babies’ lives and tackling inequalities, and then grouped these into key themes.
