Download all of our current leaflets and posters, either as pdf or html files by clicking here

Group B Strep Symposium – on 17 June 2010 in London NW9 is aimed at students, laboratory researchers, scientists, clinicians (particularly neonatologists, paediatricians, obstetricians & gynaecologists) and public health specialists, providing the latest updates in the field of neonatal disease.  This is being held on Thursday, 17th June 2010 at the Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections in Colindale, London - for more information, visit http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1195733796935.  GBSS will have a stand at this conference - if you attend, please come and say hello (and collect our latest information materials).

RCM and Student Midwives Conference 2010 – on 16-17 November 2010 at  Manchester Central, entitled "Pioneering the Mother and Baby Pathway."  For more information, visit http://www.rcm.org.uk/college/resources/conference/.  We have  stand 51 at this conference – if you attend, please come over and say hello (and collect our latest information materials).  And, if you’d like to help man the stand, please contact Celia Sykes at csykes@gbss.org.uk or 01444 416176. 

Find out about the private tests for GBS carriage, including how to order online, by clicking here (the private labs offering the 'gold standard' GBS test are happy to provide health professionals free supplies of the testing kits - you only have to ask - the pregnant mum pays when the swabs are sent back for culture)

Check out the latest UK guidelines on preventing GBS infection in newborn babies by clicking here

Check out the latest GBS research by clicking here

Download a PowerPoint presentation aimed at health professionals, entitled "Preventing early-onset group B Streptococcal infection in newborn babies" by clicking here

Download another PowerPoint presentation given by our Chief Executive, Jane Plumb, in June 2009 at a GBS conference organised at the Homerton Hospital - click here

Sometimes we're told that health professionals are unsure about suggesting families contact Group B Strep Support as they may find the information frightening. Here are just a few comments we've received recently from families who did contact us:

"My son Joshua was diagnosed with Group B Strep a few days after he was born in September 2004. The Group B Strep Support charity was invaluable in providing me with support and information by way of leaflets and over the telephone both during and following what was an extremely distressing and stressful time. My family and I were, and remain, extremely grateful for everything that they did for us. I hope that their campaign to ensure that every pregnant woman in the UK is offered a reliable test for GBS receives both the attention and success that it deserves." Justine Withey (mum to Joshua aged 3 and Georgia aged 18 months).

"A massive thank you. You were the only organisation that put my mind at ease after I found out I was carrying Strep B last year. If it hadn't been for the lady I spoke to on your helpline I would have spent the last 17 weeks of my pregnancy absolutely terrified as the midwives and consultants provided no positive feedback. My son is now almost 6 months old and gorgeous. I'll never be able to repay your kindness when i felt as if everything would go wrong." Sarah Jane New

“I just want to thank you for your prompt and informative reply. I've found the leaflet download really helpful.  I just want to be armed with as much information as possible so my baby will be safe.  Thank you again, GBSS is a great site for women who would otherwise struggle to understand what GBS is and how it can be managed. I'm so grateful there was someone willing to explain!  I was given your web address by a Midwife – your site came highly recommended - and rightly so!”  SB

"I found your website extremely helpful and our chat very encouraging yesterday and would just like to thank you for putting my mind at ease. In my first pregnancy I was told by a receptionist that i was a carrier of strep b and had to find my own information about it, by which a lot was very scary. my labour was normal but very restricted i felt like i didnt have many choices. This time around im a lot more prepared."  Kelly Fullman