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Midwifery Feature Articles

Midwives for Africa – A Call for Volunteers

Paul
Life for African Mothers (formerly Hope for Grace Kodindo) was formed following the screening of BBC Panorama’s “Dead Mums Don’t Cry” in 2005. The programme showed the tragedy of maternal mortality in Chad, one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s poorest countries, where in one hospital, at least one woman was dying every......
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Working together to improve outcomes for parents and their babies

Paul
In this article, Victoria Joel (NSPCC Implementation Manager) and Emma Glendinning (Baby Steps Operational lead for Wiltshire, Salisbury Foundation Trust) share their learning from delivering Baby Steps, a perinatal education programme for vulnerable parents-to-be. They will discuss how through joint strategic working health and family support workers can combine their......
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Waterbirth of a different kind

Paul
In recent years the European migrant crisis has etched innumerable heart-breaking images on to our collective conscience, non more so than the tragic death of Alan Kurdi, washed ashore on a beach near Bodrum in September 2015. However among the stories of horror and desperation engendered by the crisis, there are......
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Each Baby Counts lessons to be learned from babies born in 2015

Paul
Each Baby Counts is the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG’s) national quality improvement programme, launched in October 2014, aiming to halve the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled as a result of preventable incidents occurring during term labour by 2020. A detailed analysis of......
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Progress in preventing group B Strep infection in newborn babies

Paul
Recently there have been some real steps forward towards reducing group B Strep (GBS) infections in newborn babies. In September, the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG) published their updated clinical guideline on preventing early-onset group B Strep infection(i). This includes some major changes from past editions, summarised below.......
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Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholarships for Midwives

Paul
The Florence Nightingale Foundation is a living memorial to Florence Nightingale by advancing the study of nursing and midwifery, promoting excellence in practice and ultimately improving patient care. It achieves this by providing scholarships in healthcare which promote innovation in practice and extend knowledge and skills to meet changing needs.......
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