Maternity & Midwifery Forum

MMF launches MATFLIX – your revalidation made easy

Paul
Today the Maternity & Midwifery Forum launches MATFLIX – video streaming from maternity experts. Subscribe today for expertly curated boxsets for maternity and midwifery professionals. Individual boxsets are £17.50 each. At MATFLIX we bring together expert videos talks from top maternity professionals into boxsets to support your continued professional development, study......
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Sign our petition! A Chief Midwifery Officer for every country

Paul
Following the appointment of Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE as the first Chief Midwifery Officer for England, an international group of midwives are calling on every country to follow suit, including each of the devolved governments in the UK. When announcing the first occupant of the England wide role, NHS chief......
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Maternity & Midwifery Forum’s Top 10 Videos of 2019

Paul
As another hectic year draws to a close we have the opportunity to look back and take stock of what has been another record breaking year for Maternity & Midwifery Forum. We have been lucky enough to travel around the UK meeting more amazing Midwives, Student Midwives, Doulas and Healthcare......
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Informed Consent: Human Rights and Respect in Maternity Care

Paul
“This was never about blame, this was never about a particular doctor getting in trouble… this was about me wanting to understand what had happened to me and to make sure it never happened to another person.” The Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board consent case [2015] resulted in legally enforced......
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Watch the Live Stream of the London Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2020

Paul
On Tuesday 21st January Midwives, Student Midwives and Health Care Practitioners from across London and the South East will gather at the ILEC Conference Centre in Earls Court to attend the London Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2020. Our largest midwifery gathering of the year, the London Maternity & Midwifery Festival features our......
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Growing a Family with Dignity

Paul
One of the UN’s sustainable development goals is for there to be no more than 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births across the globe by 2030. While the worldwide maternal mortality rate is falling, it is not falling quickly enough to meet that target.  Among the many factors leading......
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“Poor quality of care is now a bigger barrier to reducing mortality than insufficient access to care.”

Paul
2020 will be the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.  Fran McConville, Midwifery Advisor at the World Health Organisation, entreats midwives everywhere to use this as an opportunity to raise the profile of midwifery, trumpet its importance, and campaign for better maternity care and the investment needed to make......
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