CAMPAIGN
WES STREETING, TALK TO US!
Contact your MP to ask them to write to Wes Streeting
Please contact your MP to ask them to write to Wes Steeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care – use the sample email below or write your own email/letter.
- If we get enough interest, we hope to arrange a visit to parliament to lobby our MPs, after they come back from recess on 1st September
- Aim to contact your MP before parliament goes into summer recess of 22nd July. (The National maternity investigation will conclude in December, so not much time.)
- If your MP agrees to meet with you, we are happy to come with you or go as a group
- PLEASE let us know at Campaigns@midwifery.org.uk if your MP responds to you – please forward any emails you receive
- And email us to ask for any support you need to lobby your MP
Radical Midwives can help Wes Streeting achieve the radical shifts he wants!
ARM’s message to Wes Streeting:
- We are esteemed experts in maternity care, who have long campaigned for improvements in maternity services and person-centred care – so please invite us to contribute to the National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce
- Please also invite families who have had positive experiences of maternity care to contribute, as well as families who have experienced loss and harm
We want the government’s radical shifts in the 10 Year Health Plan for England to include:
- Radical shift from hospital to community – provision of homebirth and stand-alone birth centre options for all who want it
- Radical shift from sickness to prevention – invest in maternity care, the foundation for lifelong physical and mental health; implement continuity of midwifery care; develop a comprehensive national infant feeding strategy
Radical Midwives can help Wes Streeting achieve the radical shifts he wants!
Template email to your MP (doc)
Maternity Care, a Way Forward Pamphlet
Who is your MP?
Do they have any particular influence or interest in maternity services? Check on links below to see if they are on any of these committees or All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) or are a DHSC minister, – and please let us know at Campaigns@midwifery.org.uk if any of them are your MP.
Health and Social Care Committee
Women and Equalities Committee
APPG) for Babies (Pregnancy to Age 2)
Maternity APPG
Birth Trauma APPG
Ministers for Department of Health and Social Care:
Wes Streeting Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Karin Smyth Minister of State for Health (Secondary Care)
Stephen Kinnock Minister of State for Care
Ashley Dalton Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention