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🏥 The recent UK Government's Birth Trauma Inquiry has shed light on the urgent need for a transformative approach to maternity and postnatal care services in the UK. 💡 Read our latest FREE E-Guide which highlights the opportunities from the report to enhance patient well-being and safety: https://lnkd.in/eQEysADR By integrating the Birth Trauma Report’s recommendations with the accreditation services provided by CHKS, maternity services can achieve substantial improvements, ensuring safer, more effective, and compassionate care for mothers and their families. 👉 Discover more about CHKS' assurance in Maternity and Neonatal Care: https://lnkd.in/ek4xkJgt #maternitycare #birthoutcomes #healthcare #CHKS #NHS

Today, 35% of U.S. counties are maternity deserts, defined as an area without a single birthing facility or obstetric clinician. As ob-gyns face legislative interference and administrative and financial burdens, they’re increasingly being forced to leave their communities. As these maternity care deserts grow, patients are forced to travel long distances, putting their pregnancies and lives in jeopardy, to get critical prenatal and perinatal care. Join us on #MaternalHealthAwarenessDay to learn more: https://bit.ly/4eL9Q1Y

"An awareness campaign like this could significantly improve maternal health in low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria by: 1. Raising awareness and advocacy to prioritize maternal healthcare, driving policy changes and improvements. 2. Sharing knowledge, learnings, and innovations to adapt best practices to the local healthcare system. 3. Engaging communities, particularly marginalized groups, to understand challenges, empower advocacy, and promote inclusivity. 4. Advocating for investments to strengthen maternal healthcare infrastructure, systems, and services. 5. Addressing social determinants, such as gender inequity, poverty, and harmful practices, to ensure a holistic approach. The ultimate goal is to ensure that all pregnant individuals have access to quality, respectful, culturally sensitive, and person-centered maternal healthcare – requiring a concerted, multi-stakeholder effort."

Today is World Prematurity Day. 💜 Despite advances in maternity care and research showing what works, 8% of all babies born in the UK are born too early. With prematurity still the leading cause of death in young children, we need to accelerate towards delivering impactful care, at every birth. 👉 To learn more about interventions that can improve outcomes for premature newborns, see WHO's factsheet: https://lnkd.in/gydEzwB 👉 To learn more about what we're doing to scale access to on-the-job training in the NHS, have a look at our website: upskill.health #worldprematurityday2024 #WPD2024 #Borntoosoon #PretermBirth #GlobalHealth #MNCH #PreemieAwareness

Giving birth? Look no further than the South Shore's only High Performing hospital for maternity care! Mount Sinai South Nassau is the only hospital on the South Shore of Long Island to earn the rating of High Performing for maternity care by U.S. News & World Report®, which means better outcomes for mothers and babies based on eight key measures including reduced C-section delivery rates, low overall unexpected newborn complication rates, routing birthing-friendly practices, and more! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eiUkFTZc. #HighPerforming #USNewsWorldReport #Maternity

Where you live matters when it comes to the options available for maternity care. Maternity care deserts are counties where there is no access to birthing hospitals, birth centers offering obstetric care, or obstetric providers. "Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts in the US" reveals that over 35% of counties are considered maternity care deserts. This means that in 1,104 US counties, there is not a single birthing facility or obstetric clinician. https://ow.ly/T5Nv50Trmkw

The maternity care team should be educated on the perinatal support needs of the growing Muslim American community in the United States to optimize clinical outcomes and improve patient experience of care. Read more at: https://lnkd.in/etMWh-E5 #JOGNN #AWHONN

The United States is facing an ongoing maternity health crisis in which 1 in every 3 counties does not have a single obstetric clinician, affecting women’s access to care, according to a new report. The report, released by the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes, says that in many parts of the country, obstetrician/gynecologists and family physicians who deliver babies are leaving the workforce, which worsens access to care. Ob/gyns nationwide delivered more than 85% of babies born in 2022, according to the report, but the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now projects that the nation will face a shortage of 12,000 to 15,000 ob/gyns by 2050. Overall, more than 35% of US counties are considered “maternity care deserts,” which means there is limited or no access to maternity care there, according to March of Dimes. Here's the latest: https://lnkd.in/eYVrDFPf

NHS maternity staff in England will take part in a new pilot programme to help reduce avoidable brain injuries in childbirth. The Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth (ABC) pilot launched in October across 9 maternity units. With the goal of this programme to help maternity staff to better identify signs that the baby is showing distress during labour so they can act quickly. In this article, we examine the Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth (ABC) programme and how if effective it can improve patient safety: https://lnkd.in/epW7DPsQ #childbirth #braininjuries #clinicalnegligence #NHS

Thank you for bringing this to my feed Jacqueline Howard. The fact that 1 in 3 counties in the U.S. lacks obstetric care should be a wake-up call for everyone, yet somehow, the blame for poor outcomes continues to fall on the mothers who “don’t get prenatal care.” This narrative is harmful and completely misses the bigger issue: systemic failures in our healthcare system are leaving women with little to no access to the care they need. According to the report, 35% of U.S. counties are considered "maternity care deserts," meaning there is limited or zero access to maternity care. When a woman has to travel hours just to see a doctor—or can’t see one at all because of the lack of OB/GYNs—how can we blame her for not receiving adequate care? It's not a failure on her part. It's a failure of the healthcare system, worsened by layers of red tape and bureaucratic neglect. The shortage of 12,000 to 15,000 OB/GYNs by 2050 will only deepen the crisis. These numbers aren’t just statistics—they reflect real people who are denied the most basic healthcare during pregnancy. The truth is, it’s the system that is failing mothers, not the other way around. On Red Tape Kills, we’ll be tackling these issues head-on in our first season, which focuses on maternal health. We will expose how women—particularly in rural and marginalized communities—are left navigating impossible barriers and then blamed when the system fails them. Blaming mothers for not getting prenatal care is a convenient excuse that distracts from the real problem: lack of access. We need to shift the narrative and push for systemic change before more lives are put at risk. #RedTapeKills #MaternalHealth #HealthcareCrisis #MaternityCareDeserts #StopBlamingMothers #HealthcareAccess