This website is intended for healthcare professionals

Discover more resources for the practising midwife

Join our community of midwives with access to the latest best practice

Latest content from British Journal of Midwifery

Interprofessional team trust in maternity services: a service evaluation

By adopting a critical feminist stance, this study aimed to illuminate women’s voices in what is described as a predominantly male-orientated NHS organisational culture (Davies, 2003). Despite...

A post-structuralist feminist analysis of electronic fetal monitoring in labour

Young (1984) describes a pregnant woman experiencing birth as a dialectic...

Culture, traditional beliefs and practices during pregnancy among the Madurese tribe in Indonesia

This qualitative study was conducted in the Sumenep district on Madura Island in Indonesia, between January 2017 and March 2018. Three sub-districts were selected as study sites representing coastal...

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation in pregnancy: a nation–wide mixed methods study

This nationwide mixed-methods study used a sequential quantitative-qualitative design. The quantitative elements were the main focus, complemented by a qualitative component. A survey tool was...

Pre-registration midwifery

Bangor University has a longstanding history of working with HEIW in the delivery of its midwifery programme. In 2021, Bangor successfully bid to tender new contracts with HEIW to deliver midwifery...

Providing care to couples experiencing pregnancy loss

A couple’s experience of pregnancy loss, how they cope and their role in supporting and caring for each other during the loss may be complex and difficult to understand. Childbirth generally, whether...

Midwives’ experiences using personal protective equipment during COVID-19: a scoping review

A scoping review method was used to review the literature. This method is recommended when the topic has not yet been broadly reviewed or is of a complex nature (Mays et al, 2001). The methodological...

Service user and carer involvement in online interprofessional learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

Medicine has been slow to establish involvement of experts by experience, but has shown that all curricula lack theoretically informed perspectives (Regan de Bere and Nunn, 2016; Spencer, 2016), while...

Midwifery care and social media

Anyone that uses the internet will know that online content related to pregnancy, birth and early parenting permeates it in all forms. Increased ease of access to such a wealth of information serves...

Your free revalidation toolkit

A free revalidation portfolio and CPD resource for nurses and midwives.

Editor's pick

The ethics of assisted reproduction

‘Caring professions have a prominent role in facilitating the application of artificial reproduction technology’ .

Equality in the workplace for midwives

There is, quite rightly, an emphasis in midwifery research on equality and inclusion when providing maternity care. The most recent Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential...

Students stand at the door: exploring views on professionalism in midwifery spaces

A group of final year midwifery students participated in the conversation about professionalism. When some of the conversation was performed by one of the researchers, there was consensus that the...

Sustainability of Entonox in obstetrics: a qualitative study

This service evaluation of Entonox use in a Scottish hospital's labour ward used semi-structured interviews with midwives and an environmental sustainability manager. Participants were recruited via...

More from The British Journal of Midwifery

Investigating antenatal pelvic floor training using a vaginal balloon device in Czech women

A total of 200 nulliparous women were considered for this prospective cohort intervention study between March 2017 and May 2019, and the data from 123 women were used in the final analysis. The total...

Pre-registration midwifery education: adapting infant feeding observed simulated clinical examinations

In Northern Ireland, at the time of the revised changes to observed simulated clinical examinations (OSCEs), undergraduate midwifery education was provided by a higher education institute accredited...

Supporting the needs of midwives caring for women with perinatal loss in South Africa

Three themes emerged from the data (Table 1). The participants expressed relying on their own coping mechanisms to deal with perinatal loss, how management influenced the way they coped and the need...

The use of long-acting reversible contraceptives: a quasi-experimental study in Indonesia

This quasi-experimental clinical trial was conducted from June to September 2022 at two healthcare centres with family planning services in Langsa, Aceh Province, Indonesia. The healthcare centres are...

Barriers and facilitators to infection prevention and control guidelines adherence: an integrative review

An integrative review was chosen for this study as it captures the dynamics and development of new knowledge of a phenomenon under study (Torraco, 2016). This is achieved through a review and critique...

Assessing women with symptoms of threatened preterm labour: a service proposal

Current local guidelines follow the NICE (2015) treat all approach, so there is a low threshold for interventions such as hospital admission, drug administration and in-utero transfer. The proposed...

Welcome to 2023

In the spirit of the new year and new beginnings, I would also like to welcome our newest board member to post. Ellen Kitson-Reynolds joins us as the director of programmes in nursing and midwifery,...

Coaching can support you in 2023

‘My presentation and public speaking skills have improved, I have developed the courage to approach more senior leaders and I am improving in my strategic thinking and planning’ .

Want the latest BJM content?

Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date.

Frontline midwife: My story of survival and keeping others safe by Anna Kent

This book primarily details Anna Kent's experiences of working as first a nurse, then a midwife, for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Her journey takes her through south Sudan,...

British Journal of Midwifery peer reviewers 2022

Every issue of the British Journal of Midwifery is dependent on an essential team of peer reviewers to bring our readers the very best midwifery research and clinical content. Peer reviewers play an...

Support after the death of a baby

Each year around 4000 families in the UK are devastated by the stillbirth or neonatal death of their baby

Birthing outside the guidelines: a qualitative study of student midwives' experiences

A generic qualitative approach was used for this study, as it allowed the researcher to investigate opinions, beliefs or reflections on experiences (Percy et al, 2015). It is an approach that Caelli...

Why choose British Journal of Midwifery?

BJM supports midwives by sharing expertise and advice to help you build confidence, grow professionally and improve care.

What's included

  • Evidence-based best practice

  • Peer-reviewed research

  • Practical guidance

  • CPD support

Subscriptions start:

From £12.75 GBP