It's encourgaing to see the Northern Ireland report is part of England's maternity investigation, it should be seen as the gold standard for these reviews.

Join us for the @citycmchr.bsky.social seminar on 8 Dec. Becca Webb is sharing her work on maternal mistreatment during labour and birth in the UK: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Tomorrow 1/12 (12:30-1:30, ARB S1), Princess Banda of Oxford shares her research on The Crisis of Reproductive Necropolitics and Obstetric Racism in England's (Black) Maternal Health Landscape. Join us in person or online: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/Events/gende...

Discourse on 'increasing complexity' needs some critique. It seems regressive to describe our bodies as dysfunctional and call pregnant women 'older, sicker, heavier'.

There should really be some consideration of whether removing direct entry midwifery, going after lecturers, reducing capacity to teach critical thinking skills and assuming women's bodies are faulty and broken from the start will truly solve the safety issues or wider systematic challenges

Midwifery Crisis: Lack of Trust & Failing System “I’ve never known it like this,” says Prof Mary Renfrew OBE, 45+ yrs in midwifery. Care models aren’t funded. Staff lack support. Women’s voices go unheard. We know what works, time to act. 🔗 surl.li/mntpyy

the new NMPA report on induction should really provoke some critical discussion on risk categorisation and intervention rather than acceptance that this is the new normal

Proud to have supported this work led by @caitlinf.bsky.social. There has been very little research on maternity inquiry reports, their impact and staff perspectives. All credit to her for developing this project and bringing it to life!

An apt time for this study to have been published. Midwives thoughts on the Ockenden review, its impact and what it means for midwifery and maternity care in the UK. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our paper on midwives' perceptions of the Ockenden report has been published. It is a small but timely study. We discuss the effects of the report, the perception of midwifery and the relationship between inquiry reports and evidence.

Half-day physiological breech birth study day, Friday 21/11, 13:30 - 17:00. Reviews of recent cases, clinical decision-making, hands-on simulations, research update and plans for future research. www.eventbrite.com/e/physiologi...

the focus on ideology, at this point, is really muddling the wider issues of funding, staffing, governance, hierarchical organisational culture and lack of trust, continuity and candour

Ideology is a loose term that is often used now to undermine rather than describe a set of ideas. Increasing medicalisation and normalising interventions is also ideological - there was a lot of feminist scholarship in the 70s/80s that demonstrated this.

Writting and thinking a lot about risk lately. Our relationship to it is really shaped by place - why one setting has 'fatal dangers' and another does not.

I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

what to even say about the “role of educational institutions“

Necessity of the national maternity review aside, I do think good practice work stream is too limited in scope

difficult to problematise a term if you don‘t fully define it or engage with the vast body of literature on it

New article, ‘Tense Concepts: Obstetric Violence, Structural Injustice and Moral Injury’ published online today in ‘Gender and Justice’ ➡️➡️ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

NHS hospital league tables feels like a step back that will have the opposite effect for improvement and morale

👀 the fact that the big baby trial is a linked article says a lot

this isn't it! Empowering women during childbirth - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Declining birth rates are likely driven by "pregnancy avoidance" decisions - people repeatedly deciding that it's not a good time to get pregnant *right now* rather than deciding not to have any (more) children at all, as my colleagues and I show in a new paper. 1/ doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Petition in support of the Carmen Birth Centre in London, which is being threatened with closure by St George's Trust Board. Birth centres need to be seen as an essential part of maternity care. chng.it/ZdrsKJFSPG

I would say the benefits remain uncertain, if you look at the intention to treat analysis.

De-identifying data is not the same as anonymising data. It’s incredible the ethical scrutiny health research is under, but when it comes to AI modelling everyone’s NHS records, oversight is like “that’s fine”.

Training an AI model on the English population's health data is a massive legal and ethical grey area, but researchers have done it anyway. It *might* one day help doctors predict disease, but it's unclear whether it ever can without breaking the law. www.newscientist.com/article/2479...

For me, recent work on CQC and maternity highlights tensions with defining and measuring performance. But the discourse around the CQC is really impactful, their ratings carry a lot of weight.

What do regulatory (Care Quality Commission, CQC) ratings of maternity hospitals mean for women/families or midwives/doctors? Research published today in BJOG: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 1/9

In the paper, we talk about being in the “liminal state between pregnancy and labour”, embodying risk and navigating the uncertainty that comes with induction while also trying to be a good patient

Pleased to share this paper from our research on induction of labour, focusing on women and birth partners’ experiences. rdcu.be/d77ml