In line with our charitable objectives, we:

• offer support and information to women experiencing pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PGP)
• raise awareness that PGP can be safely and effectively treated with hands-on manual therapy.

We use many different approaches to raise awareness about PGP and its treatment.

Heather Trickey Essay Prize

Jointly with our Trustee Angeline O’Connor, the Pelvic Partnership won the 2022 Heather Trickey Essay Prize for our essay on the reality of living with pelvic girdle pain and recommendations for improvements in healthcare. 

Please click on the links below to read the two essays:

Pelvic Partnership Heather Trickey Essay

Angeline O’Connor Heather Trickey Essay

To find out more, please read our blog on the essay competition. 

Submissions

One way is to develop submissions and participate in different policy processes. In this way we can try to influence policy makers to enable greater access to treatment for women with PGP.

Here are examples of our recent submissions:

• Pelvic Partnership submission to ARMA Health Inequalities Inquiry (2023) 
• Pelvic Partnership response Women’s Health Strategy Call for Evidence (2021)
• Pelvic Partnership response to NICE draft guideline on Antenatal Care (2021)
• Pelvic Partnership response to NICE draft guideline on Inducing Labour (2021)
• Pelvic Partnership response to NICE draft guideline on Intrapartum care for healthy women and babies (2021)
• Pelvic Partnership response to NICE draft guideline on Pelvic floor dysfunction (2021)
• Pelvic Partnership response to NICE draft guideline on Postnatal care (2020)
• Pelvic Partnership response to NICE draft guideline on Cesarean birth (2020)

Collaboration with other organisations

To support our policy and campaign work, we are also members of different national organisations:

Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA)

Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE)

We are also proud members of the Pregnancy and Baby Charities Network (PBCN), a national collective of charities working to support women, new parents and babies in the UK. Our goals are:

• to reduce the number of babies who die during pregnancy, birth or in the early weeks of life 
• to reduce morbidity in newborn babies and improve care for these babies and their parents 
• to improve care throughout the path to parenthood; before, during and after pregnancy and after losing a baby or pregnancy

COVID-19 Inquiry

We have also joined with other members of the PBCN in participating in the National COVID-19 Inquiry, to raise awareness about how women and birthing people with PGP were impacted during the pandemic.

To find out more about our participation in the Inquiry, please check out our blog:

COVID-19 Inquiry

If you want to discuss our work with the Inquiry in more detail, please email our co-ordinator:

[email protected]