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Improving care, reducing inequalities and saving lives: MBRRACE report and its implications

Paul
Marian Knight
Marian Knight – Improving care, reducing inequalities and saving lives: MBRRACE report and its implications from Narrowcast Media Group on Vimeo. Professor Marian Knight MA MBChB MPH DPhil FFPH FR, Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health, NPEU & Lead for the MBRRACE-UK gives a presentation discussing Improving care, reducing......
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Midwifery Sector News

LIVE STREAM: Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2021

Paul
Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2021
Welcome to the Midlands Maternity & Midwifery Online Festival 2021! The Midlands Maternity and Midwifery Festival 2021 will be live streamed on this page on Tuesday 20th April 2021. A day of leadership, education and clinical updates to keep you abreast of the latest developments and innovations in maternity &......
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Midwifery Sector News

Complex Care in Caseloading: the way forward for ALL pregnancies

Paul
Maternity services are under increased debate.  Rethinking methods of delivery, personalisation of care pushing back against increased caesarean sections and increased focus on postnatal care.  Into this mix groups of midwives, of which 121 midwives are an example, are working outside the institutional structures of the NHS to give women......
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Midwifery Sector News

How can all women be given the choice and the options? 

Paul
In a week of fevered speculation about how Archie, the son of the Duchess of Sussex’s was to be born it was clear that, whatever finally happened, whether it was a home birth or at the private Portland Hospital, the Duchess had informed choice and the infrastructure to make it......
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Midwifery Sector News

The changing practice of midwifery

Paul
To the public the practice of midwifery seems timeless with a steady story of progress, increased knowledge and professional practice with added support from modern medicine, science and surgery. A steady straight line of improvement in mortality, clinical practice and understanding.  But that is not the case.  Modern maternity practices,......
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