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NCT's response to Jeremy Hunt’s continuity of carer pledge

In response to Jeremy Hunt’s pledge to give mothers and their babies care from the same midwives throughout their maternity,

Response to a Sunday Times article about doctors and childbirth

In response to a Sunday Times article yesterday, "Doctors are ‘hopeless at childbirth’", Sam Grimstone, Director of Communications, NCT, said:

Response to a Sunday Times article about doctors and childbirth

In response to a Sunday Times article yesterday about doctors and childbirth, Samantha Grimstone, Director of Communications, NCT, said:

NCT responds to low UK breastfeeding rates report

A recent report finds that rates of breastfeeding in the UK are among the lowest in the world.

Delivering Better Births

Elizabeth Duff, NCT's Senior Policy Adviser, reflects on today's Care Quality Commission report.

NCT's response to the Care Quality Commission's Maternity Services Survey

In response to today’s Care Quality Commission's Maternity Services Survey, Elizabeth Duff, Senior Policy Advisor, NCT, said:

NCT's response to BBC research on lapses in maternity care

In response to BBC research, which found that tens of thousands of mothers and babies in England were harmed by potential lapses in maternity care in the past two years, Abigail Wood, Head of Campaigns, NCT, said:

NCT statement in response to financial incentives and breastfeeding study

In response to the University of Sheffield and University of Dundee study which looked at offering mothers financial incentives to breastfeed, Head of campaigns and communications at NCT, Abigail Wood said:

NCT awarded new Nesta funding to reach more disadvantaged mothers

NCT has been awarded new funding to train more than 200 Birth and Beyond Community Supporters in five areas of England.

NCT’s response to Grazia editor’s Times article

In response to Grazia editor Natasha Pearlman’s article in The Times Magazine, ‘Nightmare on the maternity ward’, Sarah McMullen, Head of Knowledge, NCT, said: