UKLondonista via Sierra Leone🇸🇱🇬🇧Midwife/Policy Advisor #activist #campaigner #EndFGM #EndVAWG #LeaveNoGirlBehind #LevelThePlayground4All #DoingMyBlackJob
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Dr. (h.c) Janet Fyle MBE retweeted
This week is Black Maternal Health Awareness Week.
As long as inequalities persist, we will push forward, celebrating every achievement that brings us closer to a time when avoidable gaps in outcomes are eliminated. 🧵4/4
#BMHAW26
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Dr. (h.c) Janet Fyle MBE retweeted
It will now be easier to detect potentially life-threatening conditions early on, particularly for babies where the warning signs are more likely to be missed.
This follows our 2023 report on diagnosing conditions in newborns, which continues to have impact to this day. 🧵3/4
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Dr. (h.c) Janet Fyle MBE retweeted
Pulse oximetry is a simple but potentially life-saving test, using light to measure the level of oxygen in the blood.
Universal screening will make a huge difference to Black and Brown babies by reducing the reliance on unreliable visual assessments. 🧵2/4
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Dr. (h.c) Janet Fyle MBE retweeted
Following the efforts of the Observatory and our Maternal and Neonatal Health Advisory Group, national guidance has now been updated to mandate that every baby receives a pulse oximetry screening between 2 and 24 hours of age. 🧵1/4
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Great to see this collaborative work - Learning & Action Network @NHS_RHO being launched to an August audience today. Thx to all the sites, clinicians & organisations @RCObsGyn @MidwivesRCM
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Such a great morning & seeing this collaborative work from @NHS_RHO being launched to an August audience. Thx to all the sites, clinicians, & orgs that participated. @MidwivesRCM
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@CMidOEngland at the launch of the learning from @NHS_RHO Learning & Action Network; Speaking of the challenges to reduce inequalities in outcomes for #BME mothers & babies: key to progress is the need for good leadership to drive the changes @MidwivesRCM
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MPs @HouseofCommons
debating #DomesticAbuse related deaths: Importance of funding training for HCP to identify victims of the many forms of abuse: coercive control, honour based abuse, #FGM & the urgent need to act on recommendations from domestic homicide reviews @MidwivesRCM
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Excellent opening speech by Dr. Simon Opher MP on the need for funding, integrated services & training g for @MidwivesRCM & other health professionals to reduce the shocking numbers of #DomesticAbuse related deaths.
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5 people/week die as a result of #domesticabuse 1/2 million people seek care from @NHSuk 1:3 pregnant women are victim In 2024/25 14% of Refuge’s service users were pregnant women @MidwivesRCM at today’s debate on #DomesticAbuse related deaths @HouseofCommons to lobby govt.
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22 Nov 2025
Gosh y’all with hindsight stop blaming @BorisJohnson for the loss of lives during #Covid. We’d never faced anything like it. PMs take advice from advisers. No leader wants their people to die, let’s learn lessons instead of playing the blame game FYI, I don’t vote #Tories
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Dr. (h.c) Janet Fyle MBE retweeted
16 Oct 2025
We fully support the roll out of the comprehensive measures to address racism, islamophobia and antisemitism within the NHS announced today by the government.
Read more: gov.uk/government/news/gover…
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Dr. (h.c) Janet Fyle MBE retweeted
20 Oct 2025
Back in 2023 we conducted a major review into medical tests and assessments used on newborns which found that many of these were not fit-for-purpose for Black, Asian and ethnic minority babies.
18-months on, this is what has changed following our work: nhsrho.org/wp-content/upload…
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Dr. (h.c) Janet Fyle MBE retweeted
13 Oct 2025
Midwives save lives, protect rights, and improve the quality of care for women and newborns. Yet the world is short by #OneMillionMore. Sign the global petition at millionmore.org
International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
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Dr. (h.c) Janet Fyle MBE retweeted
6 Oct 2025
This is how the Conservatives will build a stronger economy.
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3 Oct 2025
Well done and congratulations to Dame Sarah Mullaly on becoming the Archbishop of Canterbury. It’s time that a gentle voice from a nursing background is heard in these hallowed places. 👏🏽💖
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2 Oct 2025
Goodbye & #RIP gentle soul - Sean O’Sullivan. Thank you for everything you did for @MidwivesRCM & your advocacy for policy changes for women & their families. Your work impacted many people. I hear it’s much better
& peaceful up there. Maybe the odd curated lager. Who knows💔
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30 Sep 2025
My day off today, only lie in until 8. Had to obey my friend #Polly & headed to Diorama Arts centre to do a women’s health workshop hosted by @MewsOrg & @Sharan_Project Such a generous bunch of Middle Eastern women Met the wonderful #Sukki & saw her film again on #DomestAbuse
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17 Sep 2025
Great start @NHS_RHO partners’ meeting powerful presentation by #Mo on her birth experience & @dunkleybent #DaghniRajasingham
@CMidOEngland
speaking of the benefits from the work of #RHO to highlight ethnic inequalities & offer solutions such as Neonatal Testing @MidwivesRCM
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