Amy Savage

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

@DrLKVaughan Yes- I mean rather if the gov is now the payer- it’s naïve to assume that gov will continue to pay RCs on behalf RDs in sums Colleges currently receive. I predict they will negotiate much lower rates and eventually make exams redundant altogether. RCs should start planning now.

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

With prospective deregulation on the horizon, do RDs really want to hand over funding of PG exams to gov right now who will likely just get rid of the need for them and save themselves the cash??

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

@DrLKVaughan This was an extremely naive move by RDC and completely foreseeable. It highlights the lack of political strategic thinking- something(one) worth investing in from a negotiating pov. It’s not even as if £742 one off payment is even remotely comparable to pensionable pay either.

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

@BlancBlanc71089 @BirthTrauma @jabberwock951 @JamesTitcombe Thanks. It’s not your fault.I am a white, educated doctor and with all that privilege- I still couldn’t advocate for myself. I couldn’t navigate getting the help I needed- I have years of exp and insight into the system. What hope is there for women that don’t speak the language?

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

@BlancBlanc71089 @BirthTrauma @jabberwock951 @JamesTitcombe I got told expressly to consider pain as a positive thing- ‘that’s why you came for induction.’ I got asked if I’d been incontinent when I said my waters had broken! No one listened. I actually thought at one point my husband should ring the nurses station and ask on my behalf!

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

@BlancBlanc71089 @BirthTrauma @jabberwock951 @JamesTitcombe I had an induction. On admission, I expressed my wish for an epidural. They suggested that I have a hot shower. I didn’t get pain relief because they didn’t believe I was in labour for hours until a baby was half out of me on induction suite whilst my husband was still at home.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

"We ought to acknowledge that this is a problem, and that it's got patient safety implications for mothers and babies," he said.

I've known Bill Kirkup for a decade. He chooses his words carefully and does not seek headlines or drama but follows the evidence. This is concerning.

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

Bill Kirkup tells the BBC that criticism of “normal birth” being pushed by maternity services was removed from Amos report just 8 days before publication.

This is unbelievable. Kirkup says Amos was listening to the “wrong voices” on this issue.

He told the BBC that "a significant number of people" had signed off a version of the report that included criticism of normal birth but that eight days before its publication, "it disappeared."

Given the evidence, Kirkup felt he had to resign. "We ought to acknowledge that this is a problem, and that it's got patient safety implications for mothers and babies," he said.

"I think it needs daylight shining on it and then we can have a proper conversation about why this sometimes happens and how we make sure that it doesn't keep on happening."

Kirkup said he wouldn't discuss how the changes had occurred but that "I think she [Baroness Amos] has listened to the wrong voices on this particular issue."

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

Horrifying. Utterly horrifying that the testimony of bereaved families across the country continues to be ignored for over a decade. These are not new issues. This is systemic failure of NHS/Gov/SoS to listen and act. I am utterly appalled. Reprehensible lack of accountability.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

So many reports, inquests, negligence claims all focused on trusts & staff at frontline. Yet in a decade of horror we still haven't had a single examination of Govt, national bodies, universities & their policies or agendas in maternity over the last 20 years. Not sustainable

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

‘Deny, deflect and conceal.’

[Emily Townsend @emilyltownsend]

New & excl: Dr Bill Kirkup has resigned from govt's national maternity review just ahead of publication, in a dispute over “normal birth ideology”

Appears he wanted a stronger line on safety consequences of normal birth ideology than Amos would agree to

https://t.co/hstniG9lof

[Emily Townsend @emilyltownsend]

New & excl: Dr Bill Kirkup has resigned from govt's national maternity review just ahead of publication, in a dispute over “normal birth ideology”

Appears he wanted a stronger line on safety consequences of normal birth ideology than Amos would agree to

https://t.co/hstniG9lof

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

Fucking hell. Shame on them.

[Catherine Roy @catherineroyuk]

The report clearly states: “In several cases, aromatherapy appeared to replace evidence-based care, delaying
escalation or timely intervention.”
9/22

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

@RMatthewsPsych @BirthTrauma @ValerieAmos This had absolutely nothing to do with staffing levels and everything to do with attitude and compassion.

[Amy Savage @ambsavage92]

@RMatthewsPsych @BirthTrauma @ValerieAmos My midwife told me my pushing ‘wasn’t good enough’ and that I had to ‘stop breathing’ after ignoring me for hours when I told them I thought I was in labour until I had a baby hanging out of my body.

Needless to say I had no pain relief and my husband still had his coat on.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

@jabberwock951 Agreed. The ideology on display in midwifery is something I don't see in most areas of other healthcare practice.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Short staffing on maternity is repeatedly blamed as a reason for poor care and pressure on staff but we have more midwives than ever and ratio of births per midwife is at a record low. So what is going on?

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 Donna Ockenden says midwives should train first as nurses as she warns of concerns across England.

Next week Baroness Amos WILL call for a review of education & a National Maternity Comissioner to oversee a redesign of maternity services

READ:https://t.co/d3xOTNBnCN

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

"My team found examples of what they described as normalisation of deviance - when there were significant concerns that should have led to intervention, but the quest for normal birth continued and avoidance of intervention persisted, often with tragic outcomes.”

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Ockenden references a pursuit of "normal birth" at Nottingham Hospitals that she said caused severe harm and deaths with mothers not listened to repeatedly