Perinatal mortality report key findings 2/4: How does ethnicity, mother’s age and living in a deprived area affect baby deaths? @TIMMSleicester@mbrrace
“Paints a stark picture of the impact of deprivation and inequality, and a health and social system that is failing mothers, their babies and their families says @GillWaltonRCM in @MidwivesRCM & @RCObsGyn response to latest @mbrrace report - see https://t.co/EB0zK0fiHm
@mbrrace@NPEU_Oxford@OxfordMedSci The @mbrrace report findings show #pregnancy remains very safe in the UK, but there is a continued inequality in the mortality rates for women of different ethnic backgrounds, ages, and socio-economic circumstances
Read the full report 👉 https://t.co/LvOGRlQNis
Andrew Cairns and @roch61 reiterate that women who have lost pregnancies should not be excluded from care - there are a range of services including perinatal mental health services available. Each woman’s individual needs should be assessed and appropriate services involved
Andrew Cairns describing the deaths of women who were victims of domestic abuse. Still some women who were not asked about experience of domestic violence or abuse
#mbrrace @AndyCairnsNcl highlighted this key message from @mbrrace which is one to bear in mind across all aspects of the care needed in maternity. Not the ☑️ box approach to #CoC but the true ‘therapeutic relationship’
#mbrrace It's particularly troubling that improvements in care may have changed the outcome for 67% of women who died by suicide. Addressing gaps in #PerinatalMentalHealth care before, during & after pregnancy is both vital and urgent.
Read more: https://t.co/usUiMgDlQ3
Inequalities in maternal mortality remain amongst women from different ethnic groups, and amongst women who live in affluent or deprived areas. Lay summary of findings available at https://t.co/iezQJVdjBN
#mbrrace report launched live today. New messages for perinatal mental health on referral pathways, training of general psychiatrists, substance use and risk assessment. And much more. @rcpsych@rcpsychPeri@PNIMHScot@MMHAlliance@MMHScot
Today is International Day of the Midwife. Our midwives celebrated #IDM2018 yesterday with a tea party for all the staff in Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital. As part of the tea party they hosted a ‘Great Royal Maternity Bake Off’
“The worst kind of fear is not the thing that makes you scream but the one that steals your voice” https://t.co/Ke5oyaCApo.OPENING 🙌🏻🙌🏻💕💕💕 @Robinson_Linds#mmhconf