NHS staff to get paid leave after miscarriages

NHS England has said any of its staff who miscarry in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy can take 10 days' paid leave. NHS England's new pregnancy-and-baby-loss policy will also ask trusts to give staff paid time off to attend appointments, scans and tests, plus for any mental-health interventions. Staff returning to work after a miscarriage will be given specialist support by their NHS trust or baby-loss charities. After a trial at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Hospital Trust, staff said the policy meant they were twice as likely to keep working for the trust. Kath Abrahams, who runs the baby loss and pregnancy research charity Tommy's, said: "As the largest employer in the UK, the NHS is sending a powerful signal that staff going through this experience deserve understanding, compassion and the right to grieve - and that support is possible no matter what your workplace looks like."

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