John Hayward
John's London Landmarks Half Marathon 2018
Fundraising for Tommy's, the baby charity
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On 25th March 2018 I will be taking place in the London Landmarks Half Marathon. I will be raising money for a charity called Tommy's.
Here is some info on Tommy's:
We invest in research to save babies' lives
In the UK, 1 in 4 pregnancies will end in miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth. Often, no one can tell parents why it happened. Our research aims to find out why pregnancy goes wrong and how to stop it happening.
We fund four research centres across the UK - investigating all areas of pregnancy loss. We have hundreds of doctors and midwives working together to improve pregnancy outcome for mother and baby.
Our research network is now one of the biggest in Europe and it is a powerful force for change in the area of pregnancy and antenatal care and treatment.
Thanks to our supporters we are able to give £1,600,000 a year to our four centres, allowing them to investigate the causes and find ways of preventing stillbirth, miscarriage and premature birth.
We know that our approach works, and that by funding research and providing pregnancy information we are saving lives. Examples of our successes include:
we have reduced stillbirth by 34% in Greater Manchester between 2010 and 2016;
we have achieved a 25% increase in the amount of clinical appointments in London, Birmingham and Coventry for couples experiencing recurrent miscarriages;
of 120 high risk women attending our London pre-term birth clinic with multiple losses, referred from other hospitals, 90% have a healthy baby; and
we are running one of the UK’s few specialist clinics for severely obese pregnant women. This is saving babies’ lives: we have shown that the risk of having a stillbirth was eight times higher in obese women who did not attend our clinic compared with those who did attend.
We monitor all of our work carefully to ensure we maintain a consistently high standard in everything we do. This ensures that more research breakthroughs happen sooner and we save as many babies’ lives as possible.
On 25th March 2018 I will be taking place in the London Landmarks Half Marathon. I will be raising money for a charity called Tommy's.
Here is some info on Tommy's:
We invest in research to save babies' lives
In the UK, 1 in 4 pregnancies will end in miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth. Often, no one can tell parents why it happened. Our research aims to find out why pregnancy goes wrong and how to stop it happening.
We fund four research centres across the UK - investigating all areas of pregnancy loss. We have hundreds of doctors and midwives working together to improve pregnancy outcome for mother and baby.
Our research network is now one of the biggest in Europe and it is a powerful force for change in the area of pregnancy and antenatal care and treatment.
Thanks to our supporters we are able to give £1,600,000 a year to our four centres, allowing them to investigate the causes and find ways of preventing stillbirth, miscarriage and premature birth.
We know that our approach works, and that by funding research and providing pregnancy information we are saving lives. Examples of our successes include:
we have reduced stillbirth by 34% in Greater Manchester between 2010 and 2016;
we have achieved a 25% increase in the amount of clinical appointments in London, Birmingham and Coventry for couples experiencing recurrent miscarriages;
of 120 high risk women attending our London pre-term birth clinic with multiple losses, referred from other hospitals, 90% have a healthy baby; and
we are running one of the UK’s few specialist clinics for severely obese pregnant women. This is saving babies’ lives: we have shown that the risk of having a stillbirth was eight times higher in obese women who did not attend our clinic compared with those who did attend.
We monitor all of our work carefully to ensure we maintain a consistently high standard in everything we do. This ensures that more research breakthroughs happen sooner and we save as many babies’ lives as possible.
