Involving Service User Voices in Maternity Research and Clinical Development
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…
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…
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…
In the Stakeholder Council we have a common purpose that focuses on the need for maternity transformation. We do not need to be convinced. Because we… Read more…
As long standing campaigners for improvements in the maternity services, AIMS deeply regrets the long series of failings that have led to the Ockenden… Read more…
10am on Wednesday March 30, 2022: the final Ockenden Report is published. 12.45pm the same day, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Saj… Read more…