Baby boxes will be sent out to new parents across Scotland from this week, as the scheme is introduced across the country. The delivery of the boxes, containing essential items
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Plans to cut back on IVF treatment in some areas of England have prompted a fertility specialist to warn of “deliberate inequality”. Posts on the website of leading patient charity
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There is an “urgent need” for more funding for mental health care for expectant and new mothers, leading midwives have said. The comments from the Royal College of Midwives come
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The Government intends to fund abortions in England for women arriving from Northern Ireland, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said. His announcement follows a proposed amendment to the Queen’s Speech calling
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Senior MPs have urged the Government to intervene over abortion laws in Northern Ireland after ministers agreed a £1 billion deal with the Democratic Unionist Party. Tory Anna Soubry and
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Abortion should be decriminalised, medics at the British Medical Association (BMA) have said. Delegates at the BMA’s annual meeting in Bournemouth voted in favour of a motion calling for a
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The follow-up check for new mothers needs to be improved to ensure women with mental health problems do not fall through gaps in the system, a parenting charity has said.
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A mother and daughter who lost a legal bid for women from Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS in England have urged a government minister to intervene.
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More must be done to tackle the “taboo” subject of baby death, a charity has said. Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said that while many members of the
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There has been a 17% rise in the last decade in the proportion of women who are already mothers having abortions, figures show. New data from the Department of Health
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