Working with parents and professionals, we have updated the #stillbirth priority setting partnership. These are the top-12 research priorities for stillbirth in the UK. Thank you to everyone who contributed their time and to @tommyscharity.bsky.social for funding and @jameslindalliance.bsky.social

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

I have to say that @deadder.bsky.social is one of my favorite political cartoonists. ❤️

Calling health professionals. We need obstetricians, neonatologists and midwives to participate in a face to face workshop in Manchester on 3rd November to determine the 10 top priorities for UK stillbirth research. stillbirthpsp.org.uk/intro.htm DM if interested. Travel expenses will be paid for.

#ISPID2025 starts today. Sending our best wishes to all involved 💜

Would anyone like to do a PhD studentship looking at #polyhydramnios and #stillbirth based at @MFH_Research funded by a donations including those from @kmfoundation26? Also links with @mbrrace at the University of Leicester www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

On World Sepsis Day 2025, the Director General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the importance of determining a global research agenda for maternal sepsis. We need your input to determine this agenda! redcap.link/PROGRESS2

Trends in maternal mortality and stillbirths by county in health facility data, Kenya, 2011-2022 Rose Muthee, Martin Mutua, Helen Kiarie, Hannah Kagiri, Edward Serem, Simon Muchemi, Scolastica Wabwire & Ties Boerma bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Do you have personal experience of stillbirth or are you a health professional who cares for people during pregnancy in the UK? We need you to prioritise the 10 most important research questions about stillbirth. Please complete the survey at www.stillbirthpsp.org.uk/survey.php

Our papers evaluating maternity care in England informed by the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle Version 2 are out today qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl... and bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/bmjq... The SBLCBv2 is being implemented, but areas for improvement especially #pretermbirth

This important research project is researching the impact of #stillbirth on fathers in the 1st 12 months. For more information visit this website bit.ly/fathersgrief...

💡Novel project at Cork secondary school to increase awareness around pregnancy loss 🔗 www.echolive.ie/wow/arid-416... #PLRG_SPRINGproject @lauralinehan.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @echolive.bsky.social

Care of Women With Preterm Prelabour Rupture of the Membranes Prior to 24+0 Weeks of Gestation M Hall, A Care, L Goodfellow, A Milan, C Curran, N Simpson, A Heazell, S Quenby, AL David, A Shennan, L Story, on behalf of the RCOG obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @bjog.bsky.social

Psychological Distress, Post-Traumatic Stress and Emotional Suppression in a Pregnancy After a Perinatal Death: A Longitudinal Survey Joanna Beaumont, @debbiemsmith1.bsky.social, Alexander Heazell @mcr-sb-research.bsky.social et al obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @bjog.bsky.social

We're asking for parents who've had a PMRT review or MNSI investigation at any time after January 1st 2019 to use your voice to change care. We have developed a survey to capture parents' views and experiences of these processes. The survey is here - www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

#BMFMS2025 takes place 08-09 May in Belfast: bmfmsconference.co.uk/2025/en/page... Looking forward to attending & sharing our work @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @npec-ucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social #PregnancyLoss #PerinatalDeath #Covid19 #NIPS #FetalMedicine

We're asking for parents who've had a PMRT review or MNSI investigation at any time after January 1st 2019 to use your voice to change care. We have developed a survey to capture parents' views and experiences of these processes. The survey is here - www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

My latest news story in The Lancet @thelancet.bsky.social

We're asking for parents who've had a PMRT review or MNSI investigation at any time after January 1st 2019 to use your voice to change care. We have developed a survey to capture parents' views and experiences of these processes. The survey is here - www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Wez from @dadmattersuk.bsky.social about how to support Dads in pregnancy after loss.

Really lovely to see a great turnout at the #RainbowClinic Learning and Sharing event today. Hearing how partners need greater involvement in care, and we need to address health inequity to improve experience.

The @jameslindalliance.bsky.social Priority Setting Partnership to find research questions for #stillbirth is open until 7th April. Please contribute if you can stillbirthpsp.org.uk/survey.php We really need responses from UK-based healthcare professionals! Please retweet and copy in colleagues.

Impact of a dedicated antenatal specialist service for women with a history of stillbirth: the rainbow clinic Jack Le Vance, Michelle Plant, Samiramis Saba, Alexander Heazell @mcr-sb-research.bsky.social, R. Katie Morris, et al bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

U.S. spends 10x more for #stillbirth malpractice payouts than is spent globally for stillbirth prevention research. @umichsph.bsky.social @michigansocialwork.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkd-gm40-te

The number of patients entering clinical trials in the UK fell by 27% from 2018 to 2023 and new industry trials declined 38%. To revive clinical research we need to streamline systems and dismantle bureaucracy, writes @masudhusain.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Do you care for couples after second trimester pregnancy loss? If so, we need your help! We want to understand professionals' experience and healthcare provision after second trimester pregnancy loss in the UK and Ireland Survey available here - forms.office.com/e/xqRzJTqCqG

The Stillbirth Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) would like to ask UK-based parents, professionals and anyone affected by stillbirth or the death of a baby what you think are the important unanswered questions about stillbirth. Pls complete the survey at tinyurl.com/2a3dase3

Today we had a wonderful meeting with the research midwives working on the @nihr funded MiNESS20-28 study. We heard from Aimee Middlemiss and Lucy Smith present their important research findings, helping us to best reach out to bereaved parents.

Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag... Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Do you care for couples after 2nd trimester pregnancy loss <24 weeks? We would be very grateful if you would consider taking part in this survey to understand professionals' experience and healthcare provision after 2nd trimester pregnancy loss in the UK and Ireland - forms.office.com/e/xqRzJTqCqG