Five X More launch their ‘Black Maternity Experiences Report 2025’
Five X More launched their powerful new report this week: the ‘Black Maternity Experiences Report 2025’.
The cost of the UK’s broken maternity care system: NHS facing £27bn bill for maternity negligence claims
An analysis based on NHS figures shows that the potential cost of maternity negligence claims in England since 2019 has reached £27.4 billion, more than the entire maternity care budget in the same period.
PM outlines NHS 10 Year Health Plan in more detail
Keir Starmer has laid out more detail of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan. While we welcome long-term plans to bring care back into community, we need concrete action NOW to ensure access to safe, rights-respecting neighbourhood health services and maternity care.
Birthrights CEOs to step down
Shanthi Gunesekera and Janaki Mahadevan will be stepping down as Birthrights co-CEOs from July 2025. Birthrights’ trustees have now started recruitment for a new CEO/s.
NHS 10-Year plan: We must act now, to rebuild community care
Healthcare regulators are meant to protect the public but their toxic cultures perpetrate so many of the key problems rife in maternity care.
A Year in Review
Healthcare regulators are meant to protect the public but their toxic cultures perpetrate so many of the key problems rife in maternity care.
Latest CQC report is a damning reflection on the state of the NHS
The latest CQC State of Care report is a damning reflection on the state of the NHS and the inability of current structures to address significant failings and systemic inequalities across the health system.
Harm is not ‘at risk’ of being normalised in maternity care; it already is
Too often there is a lack of understanding of how the law applies to maternity care among the healthcare professionals that deliver maternity care, the managers and commissioners of services or even the regulators.
A system in crisis: Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the NHS
The report once again shows that our maternity care system is in crisis; and it disproportionately impacts the most marginalised women and birthing people.
Channeling our energies: Birthrights’ response to the UK’s racist riots
Last week, Birthrights channeled our energy into writing to local, regional and national politicians and policy makers to make sure they were considering the needs of pregnant women and birthing people in their resilience and emergency plans. We insisted that safe measures be put in place to enable access to hospital, community and home-based maternity care, particularly for Black, Brown and Muslim women and birthing people while ensuring the safety of staff.