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

Vol. 37, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 What has the AIMS Campaigns Team been up to this quarter? By The AIMS Campaigns Team Published written outputs: 19th…   Read more…

Birth Activists Briefing: NMPA State of the Nation Report for 2023

Vol. 37, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 4 By The AIMS Campaigns Team In September 2025, the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) belatedly published t…   Read more…

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

Vol. 37, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

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…   Read more…

Reflections on attending the Inaugural Regional Maternity & Neonatal Conference in Belfast on 25th March

Vol. 37, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By the AIMS Campaigns Team This was the first conference of its kind in Northern Ireland and it was a welcome recogni…   Read more…

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

Vol. 37, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 2 By The AIMS Campaigns Team Published written outputs: 1st March: AIMS letter to Professor Mary Renfrew on her report…   Read more…

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

Vol. 37, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 Written outputs: Presentation for All Volunteers Meeting workshop on NHS Change: www.aims.org.uk/campaigning/item/cha…   Read more…

Birth Activists Briefing: The latest UK Maternity Statistics: where to find them and what they can tell you

Vol. 37, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2025, Vol 37, No 1 By the AIMS Campaigns Team In this article we will summarise some of the key points of data about the maternity servi…   Read more…

Birth Activists Briefing: Maternal Mental Health Service Progress Report

Vol. 36, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 By the AIMS Campaigns Team The NHS England Long Term Plan published in 2019 called for the establishment of ‘maternit…   Read more…

AIMS Physiology-Informed Maternity Services (PIMS) - December 2024

Vol. 36, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 Update by Catharine Hart Microbirth Summit: The Microbiome and Why it Matters in Maternity In this piece Catharine Ha…   Read more…

AIMS urges action as newly released analysis demonstrates better care when ‘full pathway continuity of carer’ is in place

Vol. 36, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 With new real-world evidence showing the positive difference it makes, AIMS calls for a full pathway ‘continuity of c…   Read more…

How does midwife continuity of care compare with other models of care?

Vol. 36, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 By Catharine Hart In this report, Catharine Hart of the AIMS Campaigns Team, tells us about a recent Cochrane study t…   Read more…

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

Vol. 36, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 4 By the AIMS Campaigns Team Written outputs: Social media campaign on Continuity of Carer I statements . AIMS submitte…   Read more…

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

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

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 fo…   Read more…

AIMS Physiology-Informed Maternity Services (PIMS) - September 2024

Vol. 36, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 3 Update by the AIMS Campaigns Team In June Catharine from the PIMS team featured on the Blossoming Midwife podcast whi…   Read more…

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

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By the AIMS Campaigns Team Written outputs: 5th February: AIMS Submission to the Birth Trauma APPG 1st March: comment…   Read more…

AIMS Physiology-Informed Maternity Services (PIMS) - April 2024

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 Campaign Group Update Introduction A few members of the Campaigns Team meet regularly to focus on work related to the…   Read more…

Doula UK online Conference 2024: Inspire & Connect

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 By Anne Glover This annual conference, held from the 22nd to the 24th of March, was as interesting and packed with pe…   Read more…

Continuity of Carer Corner – April 2024

Vol. 36, No. 2, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 2 From the AIMS Continuity of Carer Campaign Group Introduction Every couple of months a small group of AIMS volunteers…   Read more…

MBRRACE-UK Reports – Shocking Racial and Socioeconomic Inequalities Continue and Even Widen

Vol. 36, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 1 Image: MBRRACE-UK By Catharine Hart MBRRACE-UK Saving Lives Improving Mothers' Care Report 2023 Last year’s annual MB…   Read more…

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

Vol. 36, No. 1, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 1 By the AIMS Campaigns Team Written outputs: BICS (British Intrapartum Care Society) conference poster on our campaign…   Read more…

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

Vol. 35, No. 4, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 4 Other quarterly updates By the AIMS Campaigns Team Written outputs: 24th August: Open letter to NHS Confederation abo…   Read more…

European Network of Childbirth Associations (ENCA) Annual Meetings: An open letter to all participants from the UK delegate to the 2023 Meeting in Budapest, Jo Dagustun

Vol. 35, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 3 Dear ENCAs Thank you so much for welcoming me so warmly to this year’s annual meetings. I am writing this open letter…   Read more…

The International Labour and Birth Research Conference 24th – 26th April 2023: Charlotte Edun reports on this recent conference in Grange over Sands

Vol. 35, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 3 By Charlotte Edun Arriving at the first day of a conference is usually quite a lively affair, a mix of meeting collea…   Read more…

Birth Activists Briefing: Recent Publications

Vol. 35, No. 3, ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2023, Vol 35, No 3 By the AIMS Campaigns Team In this article members of the AIMS Campaigns Team summarise some of the documents that we…   Read more…

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