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

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 3

By The AIMS Campaigns Team

Published written outputs:

• Critique of the ‘Big Baby’ trial

• June 25th: Open letter to Wes Streeting about the National Maternity review.

Conferences and group meetings attended:

• 13th May: Make Birth Better’s 10th Annual Birth Trauma summit

• 27th May: APG on Women’s Health Meeting & AGM Belfast

• 29th May: Plan-A team meeting

• 26th June: Maternity Voices Partnership Stakeholder council meeting

• 2nd July: Make Birth Better Working Group on National Maternity Inquiry

• 22nd July: Launch of FiveXMore’s Black Maternity Experiences Report

Who we have been liaising with:

• Applied for AIMS to join National Voices, a national coalition for health charities committed to tackling inequalities in health and social care

• Liaison meeting with Birthrights about homebirth restriction

What we have been reading/listening to/watching:

• Kayode G. et al ‘Disparities in Stillbirths in England: Analysis of A Population-Based Study of 1.3 Million Births’ BJOG 132:8 July 2025

• Change NHS: 10 year plan

• UK Preconception Partnership’s Preconception care toolkit

• De Backer, K et al ‘Characteristics, outcomes, and maternity care experiences of women with children’s social care involvement who subsequently died: national cohort study and confidential enquiry’ BJM Medicine 4:1 July 2025

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!