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We need your help for 2012

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

We need your help. And we’d like to invite you to help us, especially if we have helped you. We are asking you to assure the availability of our services for the thousands of families who will need us in 2012

Urgent attention: All staff who undertake sonography and early pregnancy scans

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Addendum to GTG No 25 (Oct 2006): The Management of Early Pregnancy Loss   Recent research suggests that given inter-observer variability in ultrasound measurements and the greater variation in early embryonic growth than has hitherto been assumed, a more conservative approach to the diagnosis of early pregnancy loss is warranted.   The studies from Imperial [...]

2011 Information and Support Day for Volunteers

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Once again we were very fortunate that a number of volunteers travelled to Dorking in Surrey for the annual volunteer information and support day. It was a detailed and varied programme which involved not only a look at where we are at now but actively invited volunteers to engage with us in creating our forthcoming [...]

Papers cast significant doubt on the current miscarriage diagnosis guidelines

Friday, October 14th, 2011

This week an important series of papers have been published in the peer reviewed International Journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. These papers cast significant doubt on the current guidelines being used to diagnose miscarriage both in the UK and elsewhere in the world.

Study brings chlamydia vaccine hope

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

A vaccine for chlamydia – the most common sexually transmitted disease – could be developed following a breakthrough by scientists. For decades experts have been prevented from fully understanding the bacteria as they have been unable to manipulate the genome of chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis). Now researchers in Southampton have made a significant breakthrough in [...]

Concert in aid of Baby Loss Awareness 11th October 2011

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Once again,  a concert at Leicester Square Theater is to raise money for the charities behind the Baby Loss Awareness Campaign and awareness of the conditions they represent. The Event will this year be hosted by Les Dennis and promises to be a great night of laughs and music and a time to remember. It [...]

2nd Annual Fortnum and Mason Christmas Party

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Following the success of the 2010 Party, the Big Give is hosting their second Fortnum & Mason Charity Christmas Party. So how does an evening of entertainment, champagne, canapés and tastings to kick the Christmas season off to a brilliant start sound? What’s even better; is 100% of ticket sales will go to charity – [...]

The 2011 adidas Women’s Challenge

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Congratulations to ALL of our adidas Women’s Challenge runners, who joined Jill Ansell the EPT Fundraising Coordinator and Ruth Kirkpatrick,  EPT Training Coordinator and Helpline Operator, in Hyde Park on the 11th September 2011. The weather was, on the whole, kind and if anything a little warm.  This year we had a slightly smaller team [...]

4th Early Pregnancy Complication Conference – another sell out!

Monday, July 4th, 2011

The 4th National Standing Conference on 23rd June ‘Management of Early Pregnancy Complications’ was again sold out and a resounding success.

Members of the press open invitation to use The EPT as a resource.

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Education is part of The EPT mission. We are an organisation who offers information, education and support to those whose lives have been touched by early pregnancy complication and to the professionals who care for them and within that we commit to:- – Raise awareness of the condition within the community of sexually active women [...]