Myleene Klass has said the King agreed that women’s healthcare needs to move forward. The musician and broadcaster, 47, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and received her medal from Charles at Windsor Castle on Wednesday for her work raising awareness and pushing for legal reform following multiple pregnancy losses. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00It was wonderful to get the King's reaction to the work that I'm doing in the miscarriage and women's healthcare arena
00:06because he was quite surprised to hear that at the moment you still have to wait for three consecutive miscarriages.
00:12I said to him you wouldn't wait for three heart attacks and he completely agreed with that before you get any kind of medical intervention.
00:20So he asked what the plan was, are we being supported, what's the next steps, working with Tommies, working with incredible charities and campaigners,
00:28how are we going to go forward and I said the way we're moving forward now is with the graded model of care.
00:32The bereavement leave is right at the final stages of becoming official legislation so women won't have to now take sick leave.
00:41They're not sick, they're grieving, they've lost a baby, they deserve bereavement leave like everybody else.
00:46So we are forging ahead, we are making great progress but there's a long way to go.
00:52We're getting the word miscarriage which so many people are understandably uncomfortable with.
00:57We're getting that word into places where so many have suffered in silence and people will now think,
01:02well you know, if the king can speak, if the king can be brave enough to say that word and acknowledge it and honour it
01:09then it's not some deep dark secret, it's actually something we should be speaking about and it's the final taboo
01:15so maybe now we will see real change happening.
