The Evening Times ran an article about figures in a new report showing that women from Lanarkshire experience higher-than-average rates of stillbirth and neonatal deaths than other parts of Scotland. The region recorded the second-highest rate in Scotland with 6.42 deaths per 1,000 births. However it is worth noting that the figure of 7,096 Lanarkshire resident […]
Changing the conversation on breastfeeding
NHS Lanarkshire hosted a leadership summit to bring together health professionals to demonstrate their commitment to improving breastfeeding in Lanarkshire.
At the event over 100 health professionals and volunteers made a personal pledge to support breastfeeding; including Calum Campbell, chief executive, who made his own pledge.
Anne Armstrong interim director of nursing said, said: “The breastfeeding summit was an opportunity to bring people together to network and to really understand the challenges faced by families and the barriers that prevent breastfeeding in Lanarkshire.
It was also a chance to consider the UNICEF call to action which states; ‘it is time to stop laying the blame for a major public health issue in the laps of individual women and acknowledge the collective responsibility of us all. It is time to change the conversation’.”
NHS Lanarkshire were delighted to be first to welcome the Scottish Government to present the just-published findings of the National Maternal and Infant Nutrition Survey.
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