Hello John
Our campaign for Better Postnatal Care has helped to expose just how underfunded postnatal care is in the NHS, and how badly some new mothers are being let down - often with long-term effects for their physical and mental health.
Postnatal care comprises just 8% of a woman’s maternity care budget. We don’t want the other elements cut, but postnatal care needs more focus and more resources (as loads of maternity clinicians will tell you) to ensure women don't experience trauma, pain and degrading lifelong symptoms, with all the attendant consequences for their mental health and wellbeing.
We're working with NHS England, and we've got a list of actions to ensure women get prompt, compassionate and effective care from birth onwards, including the offer of physio to every postnatal woman, prompts to GPs to ask relevant questions at appointments, and a plan of care for every mother leaving hospital after a difficult birth.
We'd love to work with Labour on this. Would you consider it?