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No.10 has responded to our petition. Or has it?

… says that more needs to be done.

Lastly there is another quoted recommendation for the use of MEOWS charts.

Most of these documents have been mentioned and linked to from this blog in the past. They are not an answer to the Maternal Health petition, they are the evidence that it was necessary.

We asked the Prime Minister to ensure that every new mother has regular observations …

MEOWS: Recommended

I spend a lot of time campaigning for the national use of Modified Obstetric Early Warning System (MEOWS) chart, and indeed I was in Oxford yesterday talking to some midwifery students about their use, and the difference they would almost certainly have made to Jessica.

Not everybody always immediately shares my enthusiasm for them. I've been challenged more than once. It has even been …

Life saving treatment wanted asap

… I was, though, dismayed to read a third reply to her post, from another mum, who didn't think that MEOWS charts were necessarily a good thing. She felt they could lead to unjustified intervention, use of prophylactic antibiotics, and only benefit 1 in half a million women.

Oh how I was dismayed! Where do I begin?

Midwives already take temperatures and observations. They already record them …

Thank you so much

… clear set of guidelines for the detection and treatment of sepsis which, together with the use of MEOWS, would greatly reduce the chance of severe illness and/or death.

I also believe, without for a minute wanting to alarm or create terror, that all mothers and their partners should know of and understand the risks of a uterine infection, so that instead of thinking that maybe it's a case of …

Don't miss the bear

… and our petition, I thought I'd share a few:

Jessica's story highlighted the need for MEOWS on the postnatal wards

Jessica's story of tragedy shows the importance of how not to miss the bear moon-walking amidst the data.

High quality communication, referral & follow ups is vital to good provision of care - information should be provided to all women in a way that they can …

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… every new mother has regular observations recorded on a Modified Early Obstetric Warning System ( MEOWS ) chart in hospital and in the community and is given clear information and advice on the recognition of childbed fever (also known as puerperal fever and genital tract sepsis) and that doctors and midwives are given clear sepsis guidelines."

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Childbed fever is a …

Button pressed

… at the end of the month, where I'm speaking once again about Jessica, childbed fever and MEOWS charts, and CEMACH have very kindly let me share their stand at the conference.  I hope as many delegates as possible will take copies away with them, back to the maternity wards.

We're gathering other 'first round' destinations for packs of the literature as well, and some …

1-2-3, Go

… Every woman to have regular observations recorded on a Modified Early Obstetric Warning System (MEOWS) chart - in hospital and at home.

It's really encouraging to hear that more and more hospitals are getting around to implementing them, but they should be in use nationally. Mandatorily and now.

3. Every doctor and midwife to have a clear sepsis guideline.

It is lamentable that such …

MEOWS

… to the conference. A midwife came up to me after I had spoken and said that her hospital had had MEOWS on the agenda for a while but that no-one had yet got around to implementing them.

She told me she was on the panel and was going to go back to work to get them implemented. Now.

I want these charts to be used routinely, as in other disciplines, and they should follow a mum home to the …

Extracted

This morning I read the extract of Friday's Child, in the Daily Mail . It's strange, reading my words in such a condensed form. They are my words, and it is my story, but only such a small part of it.

It is humbling to read the comments people have left under the story, and so many. Really …