LibDem manifesto commitment on miscarriage care!

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello

In a second win for MNers' campaigning efforts on better miscarriage care, we're thrilled to say it gets a mention in the LibDem manifesto (you can see the whole thing here).

This means that both Labour and the LibDems are signed up to improving miscarriage services.

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed by sharing the campaign message over the past year or so.

Is this even an issue for central goverment?
How hospitals allocate resources is an internal matter, and a lot of care related issues have nothing to do with spending or external targets and everything to do with internal procedures and organisation.
Hospitals can and do provide excellent miscarriage care already with what resources they already have (hats off to UCLH on this). When they fail, that's a failure of that hospital, and nothing to do with party politics.

Will they also give/offer support to the expectant fathers aswell?

Really not being funny, SteamTrains, but that's not the point of the campaign. It was about trying to get better care for women who have suffered miscarriages so that they are not put on maternity wards with women who have just had babies, for e.g. - so that they are treated with more sensitivity and understanding of the loss they have suffered by the health care workers.

While it's also a loss for expectant fathers, they're not the ones who end up in hospital with other pregnant women/delivered women + new babies, so they're not really the focus for this campaign.

Of course the fathers should be treated sympathetically and have access to counselling as well should they need it - that's reasonable - but the majority of this campaign is aimed at women because they are the ones undergoing the treatment (or lack thereof).

Read this, if you haven't already www.mumsnet.com/campaigns/5-things-that-need-to-change-in-miscarriage-care

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've had a search and there was no similar thread when Labour made the same commitment on miscarriage care.

I'm really keen for MN to be unbiased in this election.

Oh absolutely, Springtime - there absolutely should be support for the fathers as well, I'm not saying there shouldn't; provision for counselling and support for both parents should be a part of it, as I said.

Thumb I understand.