Contact: Jane Plumb, Chief Executive
Tel: 01444 416176 (Weekdays, 9 am to 3 pm)
E-mail: jplumb@gbss.org.uk (checked regularly out of hours)
We can usually:
- Put you in touch with spokespeople about GBS for print and broadcast media
- Put you in touch with people affected by GBS
- Put you in touch with health professionals highly knowledgeable about GBS
- Provide you with statistics on GBS
- Check copy for medical accuracy
We are delighted for journalists to quote from our information leaflets (please click here for our downloadable leaflets). Please acknowledge the source.
Background information is available here with a two-page summary of the UK situation here. A selection of press releases are available for download below.
Please include contact information for Group B Strep Support, ideally:
Group B Strep Support, P O Box 203, Haywards Heath RH16 1GF Tel: 01444 416176 Fax: 0870 803 0024 Web: www.gbss.org.uk or Email: info@gbss.org.uk
Latest Press Releases: (Word documents)
Meningitis Awareness Week: Meningitis hits babies under one hardest (September 2009) Campaign to cut baby deaths launched in Northern Ireland (30 April 2008)
Charity calls on Northern Ireland's MPs to tackle high rates of deadly infection among babies (26 February 2008)
GBS Petition delivered to No 10 Downing Street by English, Irish and Welsh MPs, parents and representatives from Pregnancy & Birth and GBSS (25 January 2008)
GBS Petition to be delivered to Prime Minister on 23 January 2008 (23 January 2008)
GBSS Chairman wins national award (December 2008)
Kate Garraway joins calls to make Group B Strep test freely available to all pregnant women and save tiny lives (3 December 2007)
Group B Strep Awareness Week Press Pack (3 December 2007)
Testing women for Group B Strep during pregnancy could save the Government £37 million a year, says new research (5 October 2007)
The NHS is letting young families down, says charity (September 2007)
Kate Garraway says every mother has the right to protect her baby from deadly group B Strep infection (September 2007)
Dr Chris Steele becomes Group B Strep Support's Patron (March 2007)
"9 out of 10 pregnant women have never heard of GBS" - GBS Survey and Press Release by Pregnancy and Birth Magazine (5 October 2006)
Information Gap is Killing Babies (18 September 2006)
David Cameron MP delivers petition to Downing Street, calling for action to protect newborn babies (4 November 2005)
David Cameron MP supports campaign to prevent infections in newborns (15 August 2005)
Local Charity wins Award (24 May 2004)
GBS Reporting - the facts you can't dispute (12 June 2003)
Life-saving tests to save newborn babies - but not on the NHS (6 June 2003)
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