Professionals from south Warwickshire join forces to help maternity care charity

Leamington company ROK Creative has designed a new website for Coventry charity Baby Lifeline, which has also been supported by south Warwickshire consultant Karl Olah, to work on a new clinical project to train maternity staff. Mr. Olah is seen (right) with ROK Creative Director Aled Griffiths.
MHLC-23-09-13 Baby lifeline Sep66 — Leamington company ROK Creative has designed a new website for Coventry charity Baby Lifeline, which has also been supported by south Warwickshire consultant Karl Olah, to work on a new clinical project to train maternity staff. Mr. Olah is seen (right) with ROK Creative Director Aled Griffiths. MHLC-23-09-13 Baby lifeline Sep66

Consultant and associate professor Karl Olah is leading a clinical project set up by the Coventry-based Baby Lifeline, involving 3,500 midwives, clinicians and other healthcare and legal professionals in the maternity sector, who are receiving expert training.

And the Leamington-based ROK Creative has designed a new website and ‘landing site’ for the charity which is linking it up to all NHS trusts in the UK.

The training project, called Birth 2 UK, has been partly funded by the Leamington and Warwick Roteract group’s donation of £1,366. The courses - focused on six areas of maternity care - will be professionally accredited.

Baby Lifeline founder Judy Ledger set up the charity after losing three premature babies. She has now raised more than £9 million to provide vital equipment in UK maternity and neo-natal units and specialist training and research.

Judy said: “So many reports over the years have outlined problems and yet still investment into training is not sufficient. The cost of this is not just financial – critically, there is a vast human cost involved.

“The ‘Birth 2 UK initiative is designed to provide this much needed uniformity of training nationwide in this crucial area of healthcare for women and their babies.”