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We’re pleased to announce a webchat with Professor Cathy Warwick CBE on Tuesday 23 May at 12.45pm. Professor Warwick is Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), and has recently been part of a major review of maternity services in England (Mumsnet was also represented on the Review).
The RCM aims ‘to influence policy on behalf of women, forging collaborative relationships with a broad range of organisations with common interests and working closely with obstetricians, gynaecologists and paediatricians and their Royal Colleges.’
Commenting on our campaign for Better Postnatal Care: Aftercare, not Afterthought, Cathy has said: ‘For women the postnatal period can often be a very difficult time – and this is when the highest level of care and support is needed most for some women. It can also be an extremely exhausting and worrying time, particularly for first-time mothers. Surveys of women's views of maternity care including this latest one repeatedly inform us of their unhappiness with the current provision of postnatal care and in 2017 this is certainly not good enough. If we are to invest in better postnatal care for women we must invest in more midwives. England currently remains 3,500 midwives short and our maternity services will continue to struggle in supporting women if the shortage is not addressed. More midwives means women will get the care, time and support they truly deserve.”
Please do join us on the day - Tuesday 23 May at 12.45pm - but if you can’t make it, post a question in advance on this thread.
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Thanks
MNHQ
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