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Angela McConville, Chief Executive, said:

This report is deeply concerning. Maternal mortality in the UK remains higher than it was more than a decade ago, despite repeated commitments to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities. Women continue to die during pregnancy and the year after birth from causes that are too often compounded by wider systemic failings in care and support.

NCT (National Childbirth Trust) has announced a new partnership with Mamas & Papas, the UK's leading high street nursery brand, to support even more parents through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.

Dear Trust and Integrated Care Board leaders 

NCT (National Childbirth Trust) is proud to announce that Paralympic wheelchair basketball medallist Robyn Love will present its BBC Radio 4 Appeal, helping to raise vital funds for the charity’s free infant feeding support for new parents across the UK. 

An NCT spokesperson said:

National Childbirth Trust (NCT) has announced that Angela McConville will be stepping down as Chief Executive to take up the role of Executive Director of the Galen & Hilary Weston Foundation, working alongside its Chair, Alannah Weston.

With congratulations on your appointment as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

Responding to the publication of the final report from the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, Angela McConville, Chief Executive at NCT, said: 

Responding to the publication of Donna Ockenden’s Independent Review of Maternity Services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Angela McConville, Chief Executive at NCT, said: