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.
Part of the problem: the need for regulators to go back to basics
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 State of Care report shows maternity system in crisis
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) State of Care report 2022/23 shows a maternity system … Read more
The Government is failing to halve the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths
Tommy’s and Sands UK have today published The Saving Babies’ Lives Progress Report which … Read more
The scandal of black maternity deaths has to end
Our article for New Statesman was published here. Black women in the UK are … Read more