In 1960 our founder and President, Sally Wilmington, wrote to a national newspaper about her distressing antenatal and birth experience. A deluge of complaints from other women followed, and AIMS was born.
AIMS’ members - parents, midwives, doctors and other health professionals - are drawn from all over Britain and Ireland, as well as abroad. There are AIMS contacts throughout the country who support each other and campaign on national and local issues.
AIMS publishes a well-respected and widely read quarterly journal which focuses on current issues in maternity care, gives news about ongoing campaigns, and analyses the latest research. It also includes readers’ views and stories, book and video reviews, and conference reports from around the country. The journal spearheads lively and informed discussion about change and development in the maternity services. Parents and professionals alike find it an excellent source of information.

We are midwives, student midwives and others in the UK committed to improving the maternity care provided by the NHS. We strongly believe that all women have the right to a service tailored more closely to their needs, and a sympathetic attitude on the part of their professional attendants. We are primarily a support group for people having difficulty in getting or giving good, sympathetic, personalised midwifery care. A few of us are working independently outside the NHS, in order to offer a more woman-centred, one-to-one, style of practice, which at present is not widely available within NHS maternity services. There are contacts and/or local groups all around UK, as well as several overseas members.

We have been providing safe, reliable and cost effective circumcisions to boys and men since 1999.

All Circumcision Agency Doctors are specially trained to be able to carry out best practice in male circumcision. Our doctors are all community GPs and perform circumcisions in the clinical environment of their own practices - offering you the most cost-effective, convenient and reliable service.

Please visit our web site for further information.

Midwifery Mentor is a new set of interactive Midwifery learning modules being released over the next 12 months.

The FREE Midwifery Mentor Members area allows you to:

Collect your MM PREP/CPD Certificates
Search for supporting information on Neonate Resuscitation
Manage your CV
Electronic reflective Journal
On-line shop with members discount
and much more!

To register simply enter your name and e-mail you will be sent your access details.

The Nursing and Midwifery Admissions Service (NMAS) is an agency, operated by UCAS, which acts on behalf of the Department of Health to process applications for full-length, diploma-level, pre-registration nursing and midwifery programmes at universities and colleges of higher education in England. The use of the word 'institutions' in this handbook usually refers to these universities and colleges of higher education.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council is an organisation set up by Parliament to protect the public by ensuring that nurses and midwives provide high standards of care to their patients and clients.