Useful links
NHS Choices
NHS Choices provides an award-winning, comprehensive health information service with thousands of articles, videos and tools, helping you to make the best choices about your health and lifestyle, but also about making the most of NHS and social care services in England.
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM)
The RCM is the only professional organisation and trade union dedicated to serving midwifery and the whole midwifery team. They provide workplace advice and support, professional and clinical guidance and information, and learning opportunities with a broad range of events, conferences and online resources.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
RCOG works to improve health care for women everywhere, by setting standards for clinical practice, providing doctors with training and lifelong learning, and advocating for women’s health care worldwide. You may find the section 'Patient information leaflets' particularly useful.
Twins and Multiple Births Association (Tamba)
Tamba is the UK's leading twins and triplets charity. They have lots of
advice and information about what to expect while you are pregnant. If you are
already a parent to twins or more they have lots of useful information too, from
breastfeeding advice to information about schooling.
www.tamba.org.uk
Stillbirth and neonatal death charity (Sands)
Sands is the stillbirth and neonatal death charity. They operate throughout
the UK, supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby, working to improve
the care bereaved parents receive, and promoting research to reduce the loss of
babies’ lives.
www.uk-sands.org
Birthrights
Birthrights is the UK’s only organisation dedicated to improving women’s
experience of pregnancy and childbirth by promoting respect for human rights. We
believe that all women are entitled to respectful maternity care that protects
their fundamental rights to dignity, autonomy, privacy and equality.
www.birthrights.org.uk
NCT – New Parent Support
NCT support new parents. They provide accurate, impartial information so that parents can decide what’s best for their family. NCT introduce new parents to a network of other local parents to gain practical and emotional support.
Childbirth Connection
Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families.
Health Talk
Find information and support for pregnancy plus a range of other health issues from seeing and hearing people's real life experiences. Thousands of people have shared their experiences on film to help you understand what it’s really like to be pregnant and what factors influenced the choices they made.
www.healthtalk.org/peoples-experiences/womens-health
Miscarriage Association
Miscarriage can be a very unhappy and frightening and lonely experience. If
you have been affected by miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or molar pregnancy, we
hope you will find here the information and support that you need to help you
through.
www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk
Antenatal Results and Choices
ARC is the only national charity helping parents and professionals through antenatal screening and its consequences.