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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
AIMS recognises that the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic is placing an extraordinary burden on the NHS and its staff. We pay tribute to all staff, who we… 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…
AIMS and our partners in the But Not Maternity Alliance have issued a press release on the nationwide status of maternity restrictions highlighting th… Read more…
AIMS and our partners in the But Not Maternity Alliance and National Maternity Voices organised a webinar for MVP/MSLC representatives. The purpose wa… Read more…
By the AIMS Campaigns Team Last month - on February 22 to be precise - AIMS marked the fifth anniversary of the publication of Better Births. Judging… Read more…
AIMS has written this week to Jeremy Hunt MP, in his role as chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, as a response to the current discus… Read more…
In many parts of the country, there is now momentum building in favour of the implementation of a relational model of maternity care. This is somethin… Read more…