PIMS Short Case Study - Family-friendly/natural/gentle caesarean birth
Some key elements Promotion of a holistic and personalised birth experience Parents able to see baby being born (if wished) Slow birth of baby’s body… Read more…
Some key elements Promotion of a holistic and personalised birth experience Parents able to see baby being born (if wished) Slow birth of baby’s body… Read more…
By the AIMS Campaigns Team 18 February 2025 Based on guidance documents published last month, by the Government and by NHS England 1 , AIMS is pleased… Read more…
By the AIMS Campaigns Team February 2025 AIMS wrote to Neil Gray, the Cabinet Secretary for Health & Social Care, in January this year regarding the i… 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…
On 29th January 2025 AIMS hosted an engagement workshop to gather feedback on what people would like to see included in the Government’s 10 year Healt… Read more…
AIMS has submitted an organisational response to the Government's Change NHS consultation. This sets out the key improvements to the maternity service… 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…
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…