Amnesty International
Maternal mortality: A woman a minute
More than half a million women die each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth – one every minute. Most of these deaths could have been prevented. The complications are largely unpredictable, but they can be treated. For further information, please click here.
AMREF
AMREF is Africa's leading health development organisation, saving and transforming people’s lives in the continent's poorest and most marginalised communities.To sign up to their Facebook campaign Status of Africa click here
Clinical Leaders Network
The NHS Clinical Leaders Network (CLN) is a national, professional leadership network for clinicians in England.
Midwifery Managed Knowledge Network (MKN)
The Midwifery Managed Knowledge Network enables midwives to find, access, share and contribute information and evidence to support their care of new and expectant mothers.
Midwifery 2020 Website
This programme of work will look at maximising the midwifery contribution to improving the experience of women during their maternity care to meet the health and social care needs of a rapidly changing population and improve outcomes for mothers, babies and families.
National Childbirth Trust
The UK's largest charity for parents.
The National Maternity Support Foundation (NMSF) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have launched a leaflet entilted 'There are no Guarantees' aimed at helping parents planning for the birth of their baby. Click here to download the leaflet.
NHS Evidence - health management
Provided by NICE, NHS Evidence is a new service which will develop, enhance and expand the services that were previously provided by the National Library for Health (NLH). The aim of the health management specialist collection is to provide timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for health managers, clinical managers and leaders, and those involved in commissioning health services.
Pelvic Instability Network Scotland (PINS)
Pelvic Instability Network Scotland (PINS) is a registered Scottish Charity which has been set up to support people with Pelvic Girdle Pain (formerly Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction or SPD). PINS charity work covers the UK and overseas.
RCPCH - Medicines for Children
Medicines for Children, a newly launched website and expanding information service, helps parents when they need to give medicines to their children at home. Medicines for Children currently provides online or printed leaflets giving free, practical and reliable information on over 100 key medicines.
Save the Children
The world’s independent children’s charity, outraged that millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection and who are working flat out to get every child their rights.
SOS Children
The world's largest orphaned and abandoned children charity.
The Pelvic Partnership
The Pelvic Partnership is a group of women, all volunteers, with personal experience of Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD), which is now known as Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP).
Working Families
Working Families is a charity which gives free advice on maternity and paternity rights and the right to work flexibly. We also help with employment rights, benefits and maternity discrimination. Our helpline team gets a lot of calls from midwives who are advising pregnant/new mums on their maternity rights and right to work flexible hours.
Working Together with Parents Network (WTWPN)
WTWPN exists to support any proffesional or volunteer working with parents with learning disabilites or learning difficulties.
World Health Organization
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends
UNICEF - Actions for Children Newsletter
UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation focusing on children and child rights, with a presence in more than 190 countries and territories. We work with local communities, partners and governments to ensure every child’s rights to survive and thrive are upheld.
United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals concluded with the adoption of a global action plan to achieve the eight anti-poverty goals by their 2015 target date and the announcement of major new commitments for women's and children's health and other initiatives against poverty, hunger and disease.
