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Pre and Postnatal Depression Awareness Week Survey #PNDAW17

Paul
Pre & Postnatal Depression Awareness week
Are you a student or qualified Midwife or Health Visitor? If so this is your opportunity to contribute to #PNDAW17 – Pre and Postnatal Depression Awareness Week 2017. PANDAS Foundation, in association with the Community Practitioners’ & Health Visitors’ Association, are wanting to hear from the Midwife and Health Visiting community......
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Midwifery Sector News

Bolton midwives set to deliver services from new midwife led maternity unit in Salford

Paul
Bolton midwives will also be delivering their maternity services from a fully refurbished and modern freestanding midwifery-led maternity unit in Salford later this year, the only one of its kind in Greater Manchester. Salford Birth Centre, which currently operates from Salford Royal Hospital, will close at the end of September......
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Midwifery Sector News

Limbs & Things launch new C-Section Module for teaching the safe delivery of a deeply impacted fetal head

Paul
Earlier this year, a multi-professional team of experts from around the world attended a 2-day symposium in the historic city of Bath, UK. Aimed at midwives, obstetricians and anaesthetists, the symposium focused on safety and quality improvements in maternity care. As one of the lead sponsors, Limbs & Things provided......
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Midwifery Sector News

Keynote speakers announced for MMB Birmingham 2017

Paul
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, Maternity, Midwifery & Baby Birmingham returns to Edgbaston Stadium on the 30th June 2017. (You’ve already registered your free place, right? No? Register here now!) Keynote speakers at this year’s professional study day have now been announced: Professor Debbie Carrick-Sen Florence Nightingale Foundation......
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Videos

How does the ‘Better Births’ review contribute to the ‘Respectful Maternity Care’ Campaign? – Professor Mary Nolan

Paul
Professor Mary Nolan, Professor of Perinatal Education, Allied Health Sciences Institute of Health & Society, University of Worcester asks “How does the ‘Better Births’ review contribute to the ‘Respectful Maternity Care’ campaign and the universal rights of childbearing women?” at the Maternity, Midwifery and Baby Bristol 2017 forum....
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