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RCOG Archives - Maternity & Midwifery Forum

Maternity & Midwifery Forum

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Midwifery Feature Articles

Virtual Conference: Group B Strep in Pregnancy & Babies

Paul
Group B Strep in Pregnancy and Babies Virtual Conference
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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Midwifery Feature Articles

Each Baby Counts lessons to be learned from babies born in 2015

Paul
Each Baby Counts is the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG’s) national quality improvement programme, launched in October 2014, aiming to halve the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled as a result of preventable incidents occurring during term labour by 2020. A detailed analysis of......
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Midwifery Feature Articles

Progress in preventing group B Strep infection in newborn babies

Paul
Recently there have been some real steps forward towards reducing group B Strep (GBS) infections in newborn babies. In September, the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG) published their updated clinical guideline on preventing early-onset group B Strep infection(i). This includes some major changes from past editions, summarised below.......
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