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Dear Johanne, That is really useful - I have been increasingly struck by the irony of ever increasing levels of of intervention implemented to avert risk and yet the one intervention which has overwhelming evidence in its favour remains almost impossible to implement. We are living in a time when there are 2 such diametrically opposing discourses. One stresses the need for ever increasing medical and technological intervention for all women to avoid risk and the other maintains that normality and safe practice are protected by continuity of carer. I am very much afraid that the first discourse is winning time after time while Better Births is paid lip service only. We must try to do all we can to prevent the same failure happening again as happened after "Changing Childbirth" but the challenges are considerably greater in terms of higher levels of medicalisation 25 years on. Katherine Hales National Coordinator *A*ssociation of *R*adical *M*idwives Because Midwifery Matters W: www.midwifery.org.uk E: [log in to unmask] E: [log in to unmask] T: 07810665733 [image: Facebook] <https://facebook.com/radicalmidwives> [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/radmicassoc> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 8:44 PM Johanne Dagustun <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear all > > As some of you may know, the AIMS Journal is now published online. The > most recent issues have been focussed on Better Births implementation. > Please take a look- I've added the links below. > > AIMS is acutely aware of the years of impressive campaigning, research and > policy work that underpins/culminated in the 2016 Better Births report, and > in similar initiatives across the UK. But we are not complacent: too often > in the past, of course, has the promise of such reports been weakly (or > even destructively) implemented. > > As well as participating in NHS-England's Maternity Transformation > Programme's Stakeholder Council, AIMS is therefore keen to draw attention > to the need for a continued focus on implementation efforts, and to support > activists campaigning for effective implementation in their local areas. > Hence this Journal focus. > > AIMS has also published two new campaign articles on our website today - a > further piece on continuity of carer and another regarding the recent > Mmbrace report. > > Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any feedback/queries. > > Jo Dagustun > AIMS Volunteer > https://www.aims.org.uk/journal/index/30/1 > https://www.aims.org.uk/journal/index/30/2 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH&A=1