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

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4

By the AIMS Campaigns Team

Written outputs:

• Social media campaign on Continuity of Carer I statements.

• AIMS submitted comments on the NICE Draft guideline on Maternal and child nutrition

• Responded to Patient Safety Commissioner survey on Principles of Better Patient Safety

Conferences and meetings attended:

• 5th August: Continuity of Carer Huddle

• 6th August: Monthly Campaigns Team meeting

• 2nd September: Continuity of Carer Huddle

• 3rd September: Team leads meeting

• 10th September: Monthly Campaigns Team meeting

• 10th September: Nuffield Trust Study on Nursing & Midwifery Training Standards

• 12th September: Implementing Midwifery Continuity of Carer

• 12th September: RCM Research Prioritisation project steering group

• 16th September: Care Opinion Northern Ireland online meeting

• 17th September: Wales & South West Maternity & Midwifery Festival online

• 19th September: NMPA (National Maternity and Perinatal Audit) Clinical Reference Group

• 23rd September: Black Maternal Mental Health Week webinar: Understanding the Disparities

• 30th September: Crochet project Threads of Protest meeting

• 30th September: Campaigns Team Social Media Group work

• 3rd October: Continuity Network meeting

• 3rd October: MNISA (Maternity & Neonatal Independent Senior Advocate) Evaluation - Independent Advisory Group meeting

• 7th October: Continuity of Carer Huddle

• 8th October: Monthly Campaigns Team meeting

• 8th October: RCM Sustainability in maternity’ webinar

• 9th October: Rehumanising maternity care following the [NSW Australia] Birth Trauma Inquiry webinar

• 10th October: Virtual conference presenting the ‘Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care’ report 2024

• 14th October: ENCA Meeting online

• 16th October: WHO webinar about their work on transitioning to midwifery models of care

• 16th October: Maternity & Midwifery Hour: Experiences of pregnant women living with obesity: access to antenatal care

• 17th October: RCM Research Prioritisation project steering group

• 18th October: Webinar - Maternity JRCALC Guidance Update 2024

• 18th October: NHS-E maternity and neonatal stakeholder briefing re Change NHS

• 21st October: International Roundtable meeting re joint action with relation to obstetric violence

• 24th October: Maternity services failings: can we try a different approach?

• 30th October: 1-1 with Stakeholder Council colleague, Tracey Bignall at the Race Equality Foundation

Who we have been corresponding with:

• 14th August: Open letter to Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health & Social Care

What we have been reading:

• NICE Interventional Procedures Guidance: Balloon disimpaction of fetal head at emergency caesarean delivery

• Supreme Court ruling on McCulloch and others (Appellants) v Forth Valley Health Board (Respondent) (Scotland)

• The POOL cohort study Maternal and neonatal outcomes among spontaneous vaginal births occurring in or out of water following intrapartum water immersion: The POOL cohort study

• Report on maternity services in Northern Ireland: Professor Mary Renfrew's report: Enabling Safe Quality Midwifery Services and Care in Northern Ireland.

• Change NHS: Government issues rallying cry to the nation to help fix NHS

• Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape: terms of reference - GOV.UK

• Maternal Mental Health Services Progress Report October 2024

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