Beverley Beech

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

No mention of midwives

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

Doctors, nurses AND MIDWIVES. Midwives are not nurses!

[Ash Paul @pash22]

Who works at hospitals?

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@hannahdahlen @advocacybaa I have been trying to “fix”it for the last 50 years, little will change until we get the majority of fit and healthy women birthing in freestanding Midwifery units or at home.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@dublindoula @AIMSIreland Well done. And if more women had their babies at home there would not be a problem and they would be fitter and healthier as a result

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@birthrightsorg Birthing people? Women birth full stop. This is political correctness gone mad.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@JamesTitcombe @CNOEngland I hope they will follow the research and establish community based continuity of Midwifery care which has been shown to have the best results.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@charlMidwife @Gaynora @deanloop @lia_bri @TinaSouth3 @mcareetrixie @RCM_SMF @MidwivesRCM @McNikki85 @sheena_byrom @corden1326 @nhsuhcw @ConsMw_Louise Will any of the money for the NHS go to providing real continuity of community based Midwifery care. I doubt it.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@birthrightsorg If only. We have been trying for the last 40 years to establish that and the interventions are as common as they were in the 1970s.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@LolaOrnato @Roisin__Bradley @MidwiferyForum Agreed, however, while staff use pool rooms as storage areas and while women are given a variety of questionable reasons why they can’t use a pool it is better to develop the skills in Midwifery units and at home where there is the enthusiasm.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@Roisin__Bradley @MidwiferyForum There are few home births in the UK too, but until there is a requirement for trainee obstetricians and midwives to attend normal births outside obstetric units the over-medicalisation of birth will continue. Currently, fewer than 1 in 10 low risk women have normal births.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@elizabethduff2 @maryrenfrew Wow, I had forgotten I had written for that.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@MidwivesRCM @NatMatVoicesorg @GillWaltonRCM @RCObsGyn @morris_ep Even better, do not move community and Midwifery unit midwives to prop up a shortcoming in the obstetric units. Solve the problem in the obstetric unit.

[Susan Bewley @susan_bewley]

Well worth reading the irrepressible & wonderful Marge Berer's unminced words to her MP. I haven't got a Tory MP @FloEshalomi, but would send something similar if I did @HealthWatchUK @keepnhspublic @MattHancock https://t.co/yonsEcYKpx

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@THhomebirth @lia_bri How many births were there in Tower Hamlets at that time, without those figures the home birth statistics have little meaning

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@LindaBryceland @sheena_byrom @JamesTitcombe @TeamCMidO @SaschaWells And continuity and time are most successfully provided in community based Midwifery care. Look at the outcomes for The Albany Practice and Neighbourhood Midwives.

[Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE @dunkleybent]

#Thankyou for supporting women’s choices, at this challenging time we have much to do to ensure all women receive safer and more personal care, regardless of postcode, ethnic background and sexuality.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@TeamCMidO Thank you for this, now let us ensure that this example of quality care is rolled out throughout the UK.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@Sanctummid It is a pity that it is now so long ago that it is too late to jail the perpetrators. Utterly shameful history.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@PeterWalshAvMA @prof_standards What women want to see is community based continuity of Midwifery care.

[Beverley Beech @BeverleyBeech]

@homebirthKH Many congratulations,Very impressive considering it is during th time of Covid