- By liking and sharing the Campaign for Safer Births Facebook page you can keep in touch with the campaign and help to build awareness
. - You could join your local Maternity Voices Partnership to have your say on maternity services locally – particularity for the safest care possible
. - You could also write to the people below raising your concerns of the high rate of avoidable harm & stillbirth in the UK and of poor staffing in maternity services and particularly on labour wards:
– Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, Dept of Health at Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, SW1A 2NS or wes.streeting.mp@parliament.uk
– Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive, NHS England, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH
– Professor Stephen Powis, National Medical Director, NHS England, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7UE – Your local MP
- You could write to your MP and to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to request that the Government acts on the outcome of the Consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths and highlight the importance of independent investigations:
Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood, Secretary of State for Justice, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA, shabana.mahmood.mp@parliament.uk
. - You could also contact your local Integrated Care Board (ICB) or Regional Clinical Network (look them up on the internet) to ask what they are doing to ensure your local maternity services are safe and well run. They may well be interested in people becoming involved in their work as user representatives.
Thank you for your support