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The Midwifery Preceptorship Framework for Scotland – an overview

Debra
This week the Maternity and Midwifery Forum’s Scotland Festival took place in Edinburgh. Dr Maria Pollard, Deputy Director NMAHP/Lead Midwife, and Tom McEwan, Head of Programme, NHS Education for Scotland spoke at the festival and in this article they share information on the National Midwifery Preceptorship Framework for Scotland.   _________________________________________________......
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There’s a hole in your bucket, dear Vicky, a hole

Debra
In the UK we have a new Secretary of State for Health. Neil Stewart, Editorial Director, reflects on the recent Maternity and Midwifery Forum’s annual midwifery education conference, “Educating Future Midwives, raising points for midwives to shout about in the political arena. _________________________________________________ There’s a hole in your bucket, dear......
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Tackling birth trauma prevention: tips, tools and actions for all

Debra
Understanding and awareness of traumatic experiences of pregnancy and birth has emerged and developed in recent years. This includes those of maternity staff. The topic was recently debated in the UK parliament. In this article Evelien Docherty Communications Lead at Make Birth Better discusses the concerns and frames what can......
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The Student Midwife Experience Festival | 8 November 2023

Debra
Visit the Student Midwife Experience website. The 5th National Student Midwife Experience Festival takes place on Wednesday 8 November online and in-person at South Bank Rooms, Coin Street Conference Centre, 108 Stamford St, London, SE1 9NH (5 mins from Waterloo Station). A free to attend, one day festival for all student......
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Extraordinary review to extraordinary: improving student experience at Bangor University

Debra
Midwifery globally is currently facing immense pressures. In this environment midwifery educators still must work with practice environments to develop and support students to become the midwives of the future.  In this article Sheila Brown, midwifery lecturer, Julie Roberts, Midwifery Course Director, and Emily Ford, newly qualified midwife, all from......
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Last chance saloon or a ray of hope? COP26 climate change and midwifery practice

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Lorna Davies
In this important blog, Lorna Davies RM, PHD. PGCE(A), Principal Lecturer, School of Midwifery, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand, discusses the COP 26 climate summit. She calls  for midwives, as public health professionals, to be aware and responsive to the current climate emergency.   On 31st October 2021, the 26th UN......
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Midwives under fire-the reality of life in Afghanistan

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Afghan Midwives
A news report this week bore the headline ‘Gunmen killed a midwife who refused to leave a woman in labour’. It is a harrowing read, including the story of Maryam Noorzad who was supporting a woman to give birth as terrorists burst into her hospital in 2020 and shot her......
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Surviving in Today’s NHS: What Student Midwives Need to Know

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Leah Hazard
During their training, student midwives learn essential skills for the preservation of life. For the safety of women and other birthing people, students learn how to identify and manage illness and emergency, how to facilitate physiological birth, how to support parents during necessary interventions, and how to lay the foundations......
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