What has the AIMS Campaigns Team been up to this quarter?

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3

By the AIMS Campaigns Team

Written outputs:

• AIMS response to APPG Birth Trauma Inquiry

• 20th June: Completed survey for Sands & Tommy’s Policy Unit call for evidence on ‘What do you think needs to deliver safer maternity and neonatal services'.

• Open Letter to Wes Streeting on Continuity of Carer

• Comments on Plan-A decision aid and other documents

Conferences and meetings attended:

• 2nd May: NHS-E MTP Stakeholder Council meeting online, focus on mental health

• 7th May: monthly AIMS Campaigns Team meeting

• 14th & 15th May: Birth Trauma Summit

• 16th May: NHS-E Board

• 16th May: Plan A meeting

• 20th May: RCM Research Prioritisation Project meeting

• 20th May: AIMS Team Lead meeting on student midwives video.

• 21st May: Campaigns Orientation Session for new team members

• 21st May: Brainstorming session on APPG Birth Trauma Inquiry

• 22nd May: Continuity of Carer Huddle

• 23rd May: Maternity Continuity Network facilitation team meeting

• 30th May: Plan A meeting

• CSG meeting every Tuesday morning

• 4th June: monthly AIMS Campaigns Team meeting

• 11th June: Aims Team Leads meeting

• 12th & 13th June: NHS ConfedExpo 2024, NHS Advisory Group

• 13th June: ARM Summer Meeting

• 20th June: Continuity of Carer Huddle

• 18th - 28th June: Microbirth online Summit

• 26th June: RCM Research Prioritisation Project meeting

• 27th June: Plan A meeting

• 2nd July: monthly AIMS Campaigns Team meeting

• 3rd July: CHERISH ‘World Cafe’ event

• 11th July: Continuity of Carer Huddle

• 24th July: Crochet workshop for AIMS piece on human rights in childbirth for Threads of Protest Exhibition

Who we have been corresponding with:

• NI Ambulance Service on responders directions to labouring woman

• Podcast with The Blossoming Midwife 8th June 2024

• Launch of the

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• ARM - comments on their pamphlet

• Make Birth Better on response to Birth Trauma APPG report

• Signitatory to Baby Feeding Law Group UK letter to Devex raising concerns about them partnering with Nestle to put on an event.

What else we have been reading:

• Responses to Birth Trauma APPG report

• NHS-E’s One Year On report for the NHS-E Public Board

• Cochrane review of models of care

• City continuity evaluation report

Thanks to all the AIMS campaigns Volunteers who have made this work possible. We are very keen to expand our campaigns team work, so please do get in touch with campaigns@aims.org.uk if you’d like to help!

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