AIMS Position Papers
AIMS is pleased to announce the publication of the first of our new position papers. Over the years, AIMS has developed a reputation for taking a posi… Read more…
AIMS has campaigned for improvements to the maternity services in the UK since 1960. We run national campaigns, support local people with their campaigns and support individual women, birthing people and families via our helpline. AIMS responds to multiple NICE guideline consultations, and has been instrumental in changing both guidance and language to better support women and babies through their maternity journey.
AIMS works towards better births for all by campaigning and information sharing, protecting human rights in childbirth and helping women to know their rights, whatever birth they want, and wherever they want it.
AIMS is pleased to announce the publication of the first of our new position papers. Over the years, AIMS has developed a reputation for taking a posi… Read more…
AIMS has written to Wes Streeting MP, welcoming him to the role of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. We acknowledge his awareness that ma… Read more…
This is an edited version of an invited talk given by Jo Dagustun, AIMS Campaigns Team, to the International Labour and Birth Research Conference UK,… Read more…
We write this letter in response to the recently published APPG Report on Birth Trauma which can be found here The report was extremely moving and we… Read more…
Find submission on UK Parliament webite https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/129150/pdf Introduction AIMS (Association for Improvements in… Read more…
Introduction to AIMS and why AIMS is making a submission Since 1960, AIMS has been the leading advocate for improvements in UK maternity care. We have… Read more…
AIMS is proud to be supporting the RCM's Research Prioritisation project as a Project Partner and with one of our volunteers on the Steering Group www… Read more…
AIMS Campaigns Team volunteers are presenting a poster about our campaign for Physiology-Informed Maternity Services at the 2023 conference of the Bri… Read more…
These regular briefings aim to provide information to understand key features of our maternity service structure to help you to campaign for improved… Read more…
Is maternity improvement possible without service transformation? AIMS says no, and calls for work over and above the NHS-E Three Year Delivery plan,… Read more…
For information about the Regional Chief Midwives please see the article Birth Activist Briefing: Introducing England’s new Regional Chief Midwives Th… Read more…
This is a review of the paper (https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004259%20 ) published on July 20, 2023 by resea… Read more…
Jo Dagustun, AIMS Volunteer and Campaigns Team Member This is a tidied up version of a speech that AIMS Volunteer Jo Dagustun, gave at the 2022 Winter… Read more…
The evidence on whether there is a benefit in inducing labour if a pregnancy would otherwise last beyond 41 or 42 weeks is far from clear. 1 The SWEPI… Read more…
AIMS recognises the discrimination and harassment that trans and non-binary (TNB) people may experience either as staff or as users of the maternity s… Read more…
AIMS welcome Kate Brintworth as England's second National Chief Midwifery Officer Please see our letter here Read more…
AIMS has written to Peter May, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Department of Health, Northern Ireland. We express our concerns about the likely im… Read more…
AIMS submitted comments on the draft NICE Guideline update on Intrapartum care for healthy women and babies in May 2023. You can read our comments her… Read more…
As ever, this quarter has been a busy one for AIMS campaigners working on our flagship campaign: the call for a universal relational model of midwifer… Read more…
AIMS Campaigns team, November 2022 On October 19, 2022, a report was published following an investigation into serious maternity and neonatal service… Read more…
For this critique we have focused on Chapter 8 of the final Ockenden report 1 , which covered findings about intrapartum care. This chapter is a quali… Read more…
AIMS has written to Therese Coffey MP, welcoming her to the roles of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and Deputy Prime Minister commendi… Read more…
AIMS supports the Government's ongoing commitment to the implementation of relational care - the Continuity of Carer model of care - in the maternity… Read more…
Key national milestones in the implementation of Better Births’ call for continuity of carer in the maternity services: a resource list By AIMS, Septe… Read more…