UK Preconception Partnership
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Welcome to the UK Preconception Partnership

- supporting preparation for pregnancy and parenthood

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About us

The UK Preconception Partnership was established in 2018 to articulate a vision and take forward an action plan to improve preconception health and care, translating the evidence presented in a Lancet Series on this topic and normalising the concept of preparing for a healthy pregnancy.

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What we do

The work of the Partnership covers a broad range of activities including engaging with policymakers to support policies related to women's preconception health, exploring research gaps and generating evidence through bottom-up strategies and public engagement, and harnessing routine data sources to build a robust system to monitor the state of preconception health in the UK.

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Vision

A society in which preparing for healthy pregnancy & parenthood is a routine part of life; health care and environmental conditions are conducive to wellbeing before a pregnancy in all families; inequalities in maternal & child health and trans-generational transmission of chronic disease risk are fundamentally reduced, and disparities in a child’s life chances are reduced through better cognitive, mental & physical health trajectories.

Latest Publication

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Schoenaker DA, Stephenson J, Smith H, Thurland K, Duncan H, Godfrey KM, Barker M, Singh C, Alwan NA, for the UK Preconception Partnership. Women's preconception health in England: a report card based on cross-sectional analysis of national maternity services data from 2018/2019. BJOG 2023.

Latest Event

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Our next roundtable meeting will be held on 30 January 2024. Contact us for further details.