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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain should change the law so all working parents who miscarry get paid leave, pressure groups said on Thursday, after a clutch of companies began offering their staff time off after a lost pregnancy.
An estimated one in eight pregnancies ends in miscarriage - most in the first trimester - but women in Britain are currently only entitled to compassionate leave if their baby is stillborn after 24 weeks.
Action groups said that policy was inhumane and urged a change in the law forcing companies to recognise the toll - emotional and physical - an earlier miscarriage can carry.
Planning bill could lead to wrong homes in wrong places , May tells MPs
Theresa May, the Conservative former prime minister, used her speech in the Queen’s speech debate to take a series of swipes at her successor’s record.
May said the planning bill could lead to “the wrong homes being build in the wrong places”. She said:
I think [Tory MP Katherine Fletcher] thought that this proposal would bring greater local involvement. In fact, the white paper proposals bring less local involvement.
They reduce local democracy, they remove the opportunity for local people to comment on specific developments, they remove the ability of local authorities to set development policies locally - and I think the white paper proposals would also lead to fewer affordable homes because it hands developers a get-out clause.
May 7, 2021
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A charity is calling on the Government to review vaccine booking procedures for pregnant women
Pregnant women trying to get the preferred coronavirus vaccine have faced confusion, delays and wasted trips, a charity has said.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advises that it is “preferable” for pregnant women in the UK to be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines where available.
But the online booking system has not given pregnant women the option to specify what vaccine they want.
It is understood that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are considered preferable because they are the jabs for which safety information relating to pregnant women is available, whereas there is not as much relevant data on other jabs such as the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
The coronavirus vaccine booking system will be amended “in the coming days” after pregnant women were unable to access their preferred jabs.
NHS health providers – including vaccine sites, pharmacies, GP surgeries and hospital trusts – have been told by senior bosses that the system will be changed to allow pregnant women to book specific vaccines.
The change comes after a charity said pregnant women have faced confusion, delays and wasted trips in their struggle to get the vaccines they are advised to get – Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
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The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says it is “preferable” for pregnant women in the UK to be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines where available.
Pregnant women trying to get the preferred coronavirus vaccine have faced confusion, delays and wasted trips, a charity has said.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advises that it is “preferable” for pregnant women in the UK to be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines where available.
But the online booking system has not given pregnant women the option to specify what vaccine they want.
It is understood that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are considered preferable because they are the jabs for which safety information relating to pregnant women is available, whereas there is not as much relevant data on other jabs such as the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.