Wales & South West Maternity & Midwifery Festival – LIVE STREAM
The Wales and South West England Maternity and Midwifery Festival is back on Tuesday 13 September! Watch online to get up to speed and refresh your skills through our exciting and topical mix of policy and research presentations and clinical workshops. Thinking about your future? Our series of careers development......
WATCH LIVE – Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2022
We are delighted that the 2022 Midlands Maternity and Midwifery Festival returns bigger and better than before on Tuesday 26 April. Watch live from 09:50 here. The 2022 Midlands Festival will bring together maternity and midwifery leaders to share the latest policy, practice and research and, through our busy seminar......
Health and Social Care Workforce Research Study
Examining the health and social care workers’ mental wellbeing and quality of working life during COVID-19. The Health and Social Care Workforce Research Study was designed to examine the impact of providing health and social care during Covid-19 on the wellbeing and quality of working life of the health and......
Maternal deaths in the UK related to COVID-19
There is no doubt the past year has been a major learning curve for clinicians to deal with the effects of a global pandemic, and COVID-19 in particular. Obstetricians, medical teams and midwives have also had to learn how to care for pregnant and postnatal women during this time, to......
Roadside births in rural Scotland
Do you know someone who has given birth on the roadside or in a car park? In the rural North-East of Scotland, this is a scary reality for some and a worrisome possibility for many. In recent years, the maternity ward in Dr. Gray’s Hospital, Elgin, was redesignated to being......
Six week window to reduce new mothers’ stroke and heart attack risk by 1/3
New mothers’ suffering from hypertension face a crucial six week window to reduce their blood pressure and reduce the future risk of heart attack or stroke. New research conducted by a team from the University of Oxford funded by the British Heart Foundation, also discovered that giving women blood pressure monitors......
The BL3 Maternity Hub – Breaking Down Barriers to Care in Bolton
The BL3 Maternity Hub in Bolton is a ground breaking new maternity service, set up to ensure that the diverse language and cultural experiences of Bolton’s multi ethnic community are not barriers to safe and comprehensive maternity care. As has been widely reported there is a significant disparity in pregnancy......