Dear all
This is a cause very close to us. Mrs Kubes and I lost our first baby due to pre-eclampsia 18 years ago and Mrs K has been closely involved with Action on Pre-Eclampsia (APEC) since then.
Pre eclampsia is a disease affecting only pregnant women - it affects 1in 10 women and 1 in 100 can become seriously ill. Despite 22 years of work at Action on Pre-eclampsia (APEC), on average 7 women (and 1,000 babies) die each year in the UK due to pre-eclampsia. Whilst in rare cases this cannot be prevented, the overwhelming majority of these deaths are unnecessary resulting from sub-standard care.
Women in the UK are continuing to die from pre-eclampsia due to a failure to recognise and treat the condition according to officially approved guidelines from NICE.
You can help to prevent these deaths.
Please lend your voice to this new campaign to have deaths from pre-eclampsia due to sub-standard care officially declared a ‘never event’ in the NHS. This means that any future deaths will automatically be considered a serious failure and trigger a review of the systems and procedures that allowed it to happen.
It will only take a minute to sign this petition but I urge you please to do so
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/say-no-to-pregnant-women-dying-from-sub-standard-care-in-the-uk-1-2-3-4
Thank you
Kubes and Mrs Kubes
(Lower West Stand)
This is a cause very close to us. Mrs Kubes and I lost our first baby due to pre-eclampsia 18 years ago and Mrs K has been closely involved with Action on Pre-Eclampsia (APEC) since then.
Pre eclampsia is a disease affecting only pregnant women - it affects 1in 10 women and 1 in 100 can become seriously ill. Despite 22 years of work at Action on Pre-eclampsia (APEC), on average 7 women (and 1,000 babies) die each year in the UK due to pre-eclampsia. Whilst in rare cases this cannot be prevented, the overwhelming majority of these deaths are unnecessary resulting from sub-standard care.
Women in the UK are continuing to die from pre-eclampsia due to a failure to recognise and treat the condition according to officially approved guidelines from NICE.
You can help to prevent these deaths.
Please lend your voice to this new campaign to have deaths from pre-eclampsia due to sub-standard care officially declared a ‘never event’ in the NHS. This means that any future deaths will automatically be considered a serious failure and trigger a review of the systems and procedures that allowed it to happen.
It will only take a minute to sign this petition but I urge you please to do so
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/say-no-to-pregnant-women-dying-from-sub-standard-care-in-the-uk-1-2-3-4
Thank you
Kubes and Mrs Kubes
(Lower West Stand)
