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“Moral Distress” from Burnout

Paul16 June 2021

The Select Committee on Health and social Care , Chaired by Jeremy Hunt published its findings on Workforce Burnout and Resilience in the NHS on the 8th June, just as the stress of lockdown is to be extended a month. Commenting on the report – Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, Chief Executive......

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What We Need to Thrive?

Paul1 June 20216 December 2021

In 2011, one of the Society of African and Caribbean Midwives (SoAC) leaders embarked on the journey of becoming a Mary Seacole Leadership. In the words of Martin Luther King Jr ‘Take the first step. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.’ Embarking on......

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Celebrating the public health role of midwives: the smoking cessation midwife

Paul28 May 2021

The role of the midwife has certainly expanded since I started my training in 1981 and I continue to be amazed at the wonderful work my colleagues engage with. Sarah Leach, is one such midwife who ‘goes the extra mile’ when it comes to giving good care. Sarah decided to......

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Virtual Conference: Group B Strep in Pregnancy & Babies

Paul9 April 2021

The Group B Strep in Pregnancy & Babies Virtual Conference takes place on Wednesday 2nd June 2021. View the full programme here and book your conference tickets here. Group B Strep is usually a harmless bacterium and carrying it has no symptoms. However, when passed to a baby around birth,......

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Born in Lockdown – mothers’ experiences in a pandemic

Paul24 March 2021

Two years ago, I set up Mothership Writers, running creative writing courses especially for new mums. I’ve now carried out more than a hundred workshops and time and time again I’ve seen just how nourishing and restorative – if not transformational – the act of putting pen to paper can......

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Endometriosis awareness month: how can midwives play their part?

Paul12 March 2021

It may have passed you by, but the month of March 2021 has been designated Endometriosis awareness month. For an estimated 1 in 10 women across the world (Endometriosis.org) and 10% of women of reproductive age in the UK (Endmetriosis-uk.org) this is a painful and potentially debilitating condition. It is......

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Birth in water education – changing and challenging times during the pandemic

Paul17 February 2021

It has been a difficult time since March last year in so many aspects of my work. Once all face to face teaching was postponed with no idea of restart dates, I soon realised I needed to adapt to ensure high quality waterbirth education continued. Firstly, I started to look......

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Childbirth Choices Matter Campaign: enabling choice of caregiver

Paul4 February 2021

Planning a birth is a concept that has become part of our colloquial language in our childbirth journeys; choosing the environment, care provider and circumstances that surround your birth is both an issue of human rights and personal dignity. For some women and birthing people the choice of care provider......

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Lessons from Saving lives, improving Mothers’ care 2016-18

Paul29 January 2021

On January 14th 2021, the next confidential enquiry into maternal deaths, Saving lives, Improving care for 2016-18 was released from MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK) based at the NPEU in Oxford. For those unfamiliar with these reports, since 1952 an investigation......

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The Maternity & Midwifery Hour

Paul20 December 2020

I think like many other people, I was partly expecting the March lockdown in response to the Global Pandemic, but paradoxically it was also a big shock. Suddenly the things we have always taken for granted, like seeing friends and family, hugs and touch were forfeited for social distancing, facial......

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Midwifery Feature Articles

“Moral Distress” from Burnout

What We Need to Thrive?

Celebrating the public health role of midwives: the smoking cessation midwife

Born in Lockdown – mothers’ experiences in a pandemic

Endometriosis awareness month: how can midwives play their part?

Birth in water education – changing and challenging times during the pandemic

Childbirth Choices Matter Campaign: enabling choice of caregiver

Lessons from Saving lives, improving Mothers’ care 2016-18

The Maternity & Midwifery Hour

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