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Climate Change for Maternity and Midwifery

Debra
Climate Change for Maternity & Midwifery
A hostile environment is growing towards midwifery. Death threats on social media to the General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives. Royal Colleges write to the Times deploring abuse of staff. Midwives and their allies need to support the RCM and their General Secretary Gill Walton. How has it......
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The Student Midwife Experience Festival | 10 November 2021

Debra
The Student Midwife Experience Festival
Visit the Student Midwife Experience website. The 1st National Student Midwife Experience Festival takes place on Wednesday 10 November online. Created with student midwives for student midwives and brought to you by The Student Midwife Journal, All4Maternity, The Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Maternity and Midwifery Forum. This exciting......
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Midwifery staffing shortage: midwives voices

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Midwifery staffing shortage: midwives voices
Photo courtesy of Unsplash A few weeks ago I posted a blog that discussed midwifery staffing shortage. It provoked an unprecedented response from midwives in the UK highlighting some of the current challenges they face. It seemed only right to follow up on that article, especially since another news report......
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The Hepatitis-B Antenatal Screening and selective neonatal immunisation quality improvement project: improving the quality of care of women with hepatitis B in pregnancy and their babies

Debra
The hepatitis B antenatal screening and selective neonatal immunisation quality improvement project
Photo courtesy Mat Napo on Unsplash This programme is unique in the childhood immunisation programme because actually what we are doing here is vaccinating these babies against a disease to which they have already been exposed so the timeliness of these vaccines is absolutely vital. A review of the hepatitis......
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Cut adrift: Pandemic leaves 16,000 pregnant women and new mothers without mental health support

Paul
Photo by Tiago Bandeira on Unsplash
Up to 1 in 5 women will experience mental health problems in pregnancy or after birth and two thirds of women will hide or underplay their illness. These figures can only be expected to have been exacerbated by the impact of Covid-19 and yet new research by the Royal College......
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PREGANCY & ALCOHOL: Lost in translation?

Paul
Photo by Alfonso Scarpa on Unsplash
The WHO have issued a new document that comments on pregnancy and alcohol. We would all expect it to be a well thought out policy document based on established advice and good science. Yet it has provoked widespread heated and furious comment around the world. Most governments have long- standing......
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Cancer and Pregnancy Awareness Week 2021: When Cancer Can’t Be Cured

Paul
Cancer and Pregnancy Awareness Week 2021
This year Cancer and Pregnancy Awareness Week is focusing on when cancer can no longer be cured. We know this may be difficult for some people think about, but it is the reality for some of the Mums Mummy’s Star support. Mummy’s Star’s aim is to give everyone a better......
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Celebrating the public health role of midwives: the smoking cessation midwife

Paul
Photo by fotografierende on Unsplash
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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