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Register now to ensure mothers receive their digital maternity exemption certificate

Paul
Midwives, practice nurses and health visitors! – Register now to ensure mothers receive their digital maternity exemption certificate. Pregnant mothers and women who have given birth in the last 12 months are entitled to free NHS dental treatment and NHS prescriptions with a valid maternity exemption certificate. The NHS Business......
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Midwifery Hour Highlights: Students Stepping Up

Paul
Student midwives heading for the frontline in COVID-19 The second instalment of the Maternity & Midwifery Hour – proudly supported by MATFLIX – focuses on the students affected by the coronavirus crisis hitting global healthcare systems. Host Sue Macdonald (Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery textbook) was joined by Dr Anna Byrom (Senior......
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Maternity & Midwifery Hour: Wellbeing Matters

Paul
Last Friday we hosted our first Maternity & Midwifery Hour on Facebook Live. We were delighted to welcome viewers from more than 20 countries around the world. This episode brought together leading experts Dr Sheena Byrom OBE from All4Maternity and The Practising Midwife, Sue Macdonald, Co-editor of Mayes Midwifery and Jenny Clarke (Jenny the Midwife) to provide......
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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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Nurses and Midwives for Inclusion Health

Paul
Nurses and Midwives for Inclusion Health: Partnership in Practice is a new professional interest group of nurse and midwife practitioners working in contexts where access to/uptake of health services is limited as a result of marginalisation, discrimination or lack of awareness. Examples of these practice areas include: homeless health, migrant/refugee......
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Pregnancy and maternity discrimination at work

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Maternity and pregnancy discrimination is unfortunately still very common, what advice can midwives give to women who are experiencing discrimination or unfair treatment? Here we explain how to negotiate an exit from an employer. You can also read our separate page: 10 tips for returning from maternity leave. What is......