National Stillbirth Working Group for Wales Sands is delighted to be a part of the re-launched National Stillbirth Working Group for Wales, which held its first... Posted 23 February 2015
Inquiry into NHS Complaints and Clinical Failure Shortly before Christmas, Parliament’s Public Administration Select Committee announced an inquiry into how incidents of clinical failure in the NHS... Posted 20 February 2015
RCM e-learning course: coming soon We have been working in collaboration with Child Bereavement UK to develop a bereavement care e-learning course aimed at midwives... Posted 17 February 2015
Nursing Times: Maternity services urged to review serious clinical incidents in labour Nursing Times reports on maternity services being asked to collect data as part of the Royal College of Obstetricians and... Posted 5 February 2015
Sands welcomes the beginning of RCOG's Each Baby Counts data collection Sands welcomes the data collection phase of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ (RCOG) Each Baby Counts project, an... Posted 4 February 2015
BBC Radio Leeds highlights the need for cuddle cots in all UK hospitals BBC Radio Leeds with Liz Green programme highlighted the need for cuddle cots in all hospitals across the UK by... Posted 4 February 2015
EADT: Grandmother of eight prepares to cycle round Britain, towing her beloved dog in sidecar Maggie Scorer, from Suffolk, is taking on a fantastic challenge in March 2015 by cycling round the coast of Britain... Posted 25 January 2015
New Year's Honours for Sands Group Chair Congratulations to Alison Hall, nurse and Chair of Dumfries and Galloway Sands on recieving a British Empire Medal. This prestigious... Posted 5 January 2015
Sands supports NICE priorities for treating sick babies with antibiotics The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued a new quality standard on 18 December which sets out... Posted 19 December 2014
Nursing Times: NICE updates guidance on mental health problems linked to pregnancy Nursing Times reports on updated NICE Guidance on the recognition, care and treatment of antenatal and postnatal mental health. The... Posted 18 December 2014
National Institute for Health Research seeking bereaved parents to review research applications The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is seeking parents whose baby was stillborn or died neonatally to comment on... Posted 18 December 2014
Report of confidential enquiry into the care of babies with congenital diaphragmatic hernia published A report into the care of unborn and newborn babies diagnosed with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) and their mothers was... Posted 12 December 2014
New report shows number of maternal deaths has fallen, but more could be prevented A report into maternal deaths in the UK published on 9 December 2014 shows that the number of women dying... Posted 12 December 2014
The Sunday Times- Sands’ response to new NICE Guidance for the care of women and their babies during labour We gained media coverage in The Sunday Times on 7 December 2014. Written by its columnist Camilla Cavendish and entitled... Posted 9 December 2014
Teddy’s Wish launches official website in memory of baby boy New charity, Teddy’s Wish, has launched its official website www.teddyswish.org following the death of 3 month old Edward Louis Reid... Posted 5 December 2014