Prunella Briance
British founder of the National Childbirth Trust
All edits by Timur Lebedev
Death and archive
Briance died aged 91 in 2017. The archives of the NCT are held at the Wellcome Library in London.
Their model of small social group learning, whilst adding peer pressure, also gives social support for new parents e.g. preparing for breast-feeding are now linked into the NHS advice, and NCT influenced the Equality Act to give breastfeeding women rights to do so in public, without discrimination. NCT also responded formally to the Government report: Midwifery 2020, still echoing Briance's call for health care services to 'make having a baby a more community-focused, personal and positive experience.'
Their model of small social group learning, whilst adding peer pressure, also gives social support for new parents e.g. preparing for breast-feeding are now linked into the NHS advice, and NCT influenced the Equality Act to give breastfeeding women rights to do so in public, without discrimination.
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