The MASIC Foundation

Registered charity (1169632) supporting women with injuries from childbirth. Campaigning to influence change in healthcare policy and provide support.

[The MASIC Foundation @masic_uk]

It’s Birth Trauma Awareness Week #BTAW2026

The Hidden Cost of Birth Trauma

👉 Approx 8,000 women per year will sustain an OASI (3rd or 4th degree tear) at current rates in England

Read more: https://t.co/PaYkbTinSe

[BirthTrauma @BirthTrauma]

The 2024 birth trauma inquiry recommended the govt commission research into the economic impact of birth trauma. We urge the govt to accept this recommendation - especially given that Birth Trauma Australia has found that birth trauma costs the Australian economy $17.5bn a year.

[BirthTrauma @BirthTrauma]

It's Birth Trauma Awareness Week, and the theme this year is the cost of birth trauma. Birth Trauma Australia have commissioned research showing that birth trauma costs the Australian economy $17.5 billion a year. How much does it cost the UK? https://t.co/3q7SOjacL9

[BirthTrauma @BirthTrauma]

'Executives at Leeds...which is being investigated for deaths and harm caused to mothers and babies, asked consultants and nurses to “work in ways which lie outside the national service recommendations” despite the potential risks.'
https://t.co/5bfk281xhc

[BirthTrauma @BirthTrauma]

This is so moving from @lukejcr. Thank you for speaking out about your experience - you are not alone. https://t.co/p2SjZAtUVH

[BirthTrauma @BirthTrauma]

Inside the ‘normal birth ideology’ that fractured the Amos report

https://t.co/UPVliB0wbK

[Bolt Burdon Kemp @BoltBurdonKemp]

In our latest episode, Hannah Travis & Claudia Hillemand react to the National Maternity & Neonatal Investigation Report. While some recommendations are good, more action is needed on cultural issues in maternity services.

🎧 Listen: https://t.co/GGPcCfTTe5 #MaternitySafety

[The MASIC Foundation @masic_uk]

@VCM_2007 So sorry 😔 unacceptable.

[Nancy Cole @nancycoleITV]

Nottinghamshire MP, Nottingham harmed mum and National Maternity Advisor👇🏼 seeks urgent call with Baroness Amos on claims criticism of “normal birth ideology” was removed from the national maternity review.

[The MASIC Foundation @masic_uk]

@ShaunLintern Curious to know more about LutherPendragon. This organisation sent out Baroness Amos' NMNI comms yesterday. https://t.co/j38BnUn2eS

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 Amos did find evidence of normal birth. Her own expert reviewers agreed the wording only for Amos to unilaterally change it prompting Kirkup to resign. Was Amos involved in a cover-up? Why? Who got to her? Another nail in the coffin of the Amos review:
https://t.co/ySLyyXWoZg

[The MASIC Foundation @masic_uk]

@soniasodha @JamesTitcombe @laurabundock

[Michael Buchanan @BBCMBuchanan]

NEW: Criticism of ‘normal birth’ was removed from the final Amos report just 8 days before publication.

Dr Bill Kirkup says the review had found evidence that the approach was a problem in some areas but that the criticism then “disappeared”

https://t.co/6UeWG7D1f0

[Elaine Miller | Venus Envy @GussieGrips]

<sigh>

[BirthTrauma @BirthTrauma]

More reflections on the Amos report. The second report, which looks at individual trusts, uses the format of an introductory section, followed by the views of families, followed by the views of staff. There are two problems with this: /1

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

From one of those ignored women who happens to have experienced Birth Trauma, first MP to speak about it in Parliament, co-founder of the APPG, launched Parliament's first ever report on BT with Theo Clarke and @BirthTrauma, yet has not been invited to attend Govt's Taskforce...

[The MASIC Foundation @masic_uk]

Our response to Baroness Amos report:
👉https://t.co/tP7g5hszwB

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

Interesting update from BBC on proposed new maternity commissioner.... Donna Ockenden, who some have tipped for the role, has said she might turn it down if offered it.

https://t.co/AgGHj82O0j

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Many families demanding a Statutory Public Inquiry - ie, one that will enforce change. If this happens, it must take place alongside all the recs that have already been recommended by Ockenden, Kirkup, our APPG - not as a way of pushing those changes further down the road. 3/

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

"I’ve looked at it overnight and I don’t see anything that we didn’t already know, that hasn’t already been spelled out very clearly" - @DOckendenLtd on Amos