Alice
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Mother to my beautiful daughter who died in labour due to multiple catastrophic individual and systemic failures in our care @Safe_Maternity #maternitysafety
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Joined October 2013
@RMatthewsPsyEdu I was 'empowered'. I was 'worried'. I did 'speak up'. I called 44 times one day. I quoted NICE guidelines. My sister (a midwife in another trust) called with her concerns. Nobody listened. I was still denied basic care and my baby died a preventable death.
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RT @mwfrymusing: Qualitative research on hypnobirthing by Katie Fox. Hypnobirthing can improve confidence and help with coping with labour….
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RT @catherineroyuk: Michel Odent - obituary ."he admitted to checking the Caesarean-section rate of countries he visited, to assess whether….
telegraph.co.uk
Some dismissed him as a crank or a romantic, yet many of Odent’s innovations – including birthing pools – have entered the mainstream
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RT @FionaWinserRamm: 🚩Leeds Teaching Hospitals were aware of what happened since 2021 and said it received "several serious concerns" about….
bbc.co.uk
Zoe Ward tells the BBC of her experience with a funeral director who has since been barred from wards.
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RT @DadOfAubrey: @CareQualityComm @NHSinBlkCountry I don’t quite get how there can be no external concern for a trust that looks like this….
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RT @DadOfAubrey: Following on: @SWBHnhs July Board Papers indicates SB & NND as below. Seems that the 0’s for Nov & Dec 24 may indeed be da….
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RT @BeckyLKWilliams: My daughter Mabel should be here. Instead, she died just 6 days after birth because warning signs in my VBAC labour we….
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RT @RobSissons1: Nottinghamshire Police says it has acted swiftly to suspend a member of police staff from Operation Perth( the investigati….
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RT @BBCSussex: Families calling for an inquiry into maternity care in Brighton say they feel "ignored, exhausted and dismissed" after meeti….
bbc.co.uk
It follows a meeting between the families and Baroness Amos, who will chair the review.
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RT @DadOfAubrey: 800 babies die preventably each year in England’s NHS — almost the same as all preventable adult deaths. Babies are ~29×….
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RT @itvmeridian: Mothers speak of harrowing ordeal at Oxford maternity unit as hundreds of families call for inquiry.
itv.com
The families say the John Radcliffe Hospital's maternity and neonatal departments are responsible for medical negligence, trauma and substandard care. | ITV News Meridian
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RT @AliJaneMoore: What's gone wrong in maternity services and will the Amos review stand any chance of putting it right? Interesting discus….
bbc.co.uk
One of the few women of her generation to help shape UK dance culture.
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RT @EmilyJBarley: I'll be on @BBCWomansHour in about 15 minutes, talking about the HSSIB report on maternity, the 'rapid review' of materni….
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RT @tumtumtum: Hayden would have turned 9 years old today. Nine years on, the circumstances of his death is now correctly recorded after….
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RT @Charlot76377903: @DadOfAubrey @PHSOmbudsman @CommonsHealth And we shouldn't fucking have to!! They come to our homes and lie to our fac….
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RT @catherineroyuk: "Lucia and George Ford-Ferrari’s daughter, Freya, was one of nine babies who died between 2021 and 2023 at Sussex NHS h….
inews.co.uk
Lucia and George Ford-Ferrari’s daughter, Freya, was one of nine babies who died between 2021 and 2023 at Sussex NHS hospitals
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RT @catherineroyuk: "perceived issues relating to the training and education of midwives that stemmed from changes to education in the 1990….
hssib.org.uk
This report is a summary of information HSSIB collected during an exploratory review of maternity and neonatal services in spring 2025. On 23 June 2025, the Secretary of State for Health and Social...
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RT @DadOfAubrey: “The vast majority of care is safe.”.That line has become a shield. If your baby is in the minority that dies, it’s not re….
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