Audit midwife lead | Governance, compliance & QI driven | Patient & staff experience | EBP | Informed consent, safe birth, safe staff | 🐾🐾
NW London, England
Joined November 2017
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Risk assessment can be complex. So important that women access maternity services working hard to provide safe care. Media & other online comments sometimes not helpful for women & families needing expert support & advice.
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There are two experts in the room - the patient, an expert in themselves and the doctor, expert in medicine.
Another simple concept to also consider- ideas, concerns and expectations.
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So much support for our Obs & Gynae consultants, it has never been busier 🙏
Our campaign is about reducing burnout, returning the time we had to actually fix our services and regaining comparable pay. Here's me explaining on GBNews. #DemandBetter
Julie Graham retweeted
For a government that claims to put the NHS at the heart of its priorities, yesterday's Budget falls worryingly short.
Read our response: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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The label “corridor care” is hiding the true scale of the NHS hospital crisis, warns @DrAsifQasim.
We must be honest about the harm that is happening to patients
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So much support for our Obs & Gynae consultants, it has never been busier 🙏
Our campaign is about reducing burnout, returning the time we had to actually fix our services and regaining comparable pay. Here's me explaining on GBNews. #DemandBetter
Julie Graham retweeted
Chuffed to be on the short list for #intervieweroftheyear -
Thank you @pressgazette - proud to be in very fine company!
@shattenstone @Geordie_Greig @piersmorgan @henrymance and @zannymb
The shortlist for the British Journalism Awards is finally here! With hundreds of outstanding entries, making the shortlist is a true mark of excellence. Congratulations to everyone shortlisted, and thank you to all who entered.
pressgazette.co.uk/press-gaz… #BJA2026 #PressGazette
Julie Graham retweeted
Interested in improving maternal care? Exciting opportunities for new @mbrrace assessors with expertise in cardiology, critical care, emergency medicine, obstetric medicine, perinatal psychiatry and pre-hospital care. Details here: buff.ly/kWLxzNw
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If you think it's not important to fix conditions and pay for consultants then read just one of the messages I got today. Where are the Drs? They've gone to places with better work life balance and better pay. Without Drs there's no NHS.
Why is there no statutory ratio for babies on the PN ward? This means the baby is treated as an extension of the mother and midwives are caring for double the number of individuals, e.g. 16 instead of 8.
Please make day to day staffing safer @YvetteCooperMP
#CountEachBaby
Julie Graham retweeted
if we want those shopfloor staff to engage in any meaningful way with corporate/political agendas around use of scarce resources, productivity they have to be involved in solutions (which the survey shows they aren't) and feel valued and supported
Not firefighting/surviving
Doctors supporting physiological processes @catherineroyuk
it was good to join @BBCFrontRow last night to talk about social prescribing. It's really important that we do not overpromise - and I have massive concerns about medicalising the need for normal human interactions. This claim in the press release from the Southbank Centre/
Julie Graham retweeted
You didn’t listen to those who knew what was happening and surrounded yourself with people who told you what you wanted to hear
Jeremy, you were well placed to support maternity teams. Unless you want all women to opt for elective CS, there is absolutely a place for physiological birth when appropriate. Framing system issues as an 'ideology' risks diverting attention from wider challenges.
After the repeated evidence we've heard of 'normal birth' ideology contributing to harm, I very much welcome @YvetteCooperMP clear words: there is no place for ideology in childbirth. #BabyLossAwarenessWeek
Julie Graham retweeted
What does Dr Kirkup say about the understaffing, conditions and significant increase in UK caesarean rate + other issues raised by maternity teams? Can he work with and advise @YvetteCooperMP on driving improvements?
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Health Secretary promises urgent action on children being treated in corridors in the NHS in England... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2k…
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Repeated themes in the Amos report:
understaffing, low morale, burn out, bullying, soaring caesareans, worsening outcomes, racism, poor facilities.
Since 2015, data shows maternity services have deteriorated into a dangerous mess.
Normal birth ‘ideology’ is not the issue.
NEW: A major national review into maternity services heard “repeated” evidence of “normal birth ideology” despite concluding it was not “widespread” – partly because it relied on AI evidence summaries – a former expert adviser has warned hsj.co.uk/patient-safety/amo…
