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Despite recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the ideal rate for caesarean sections (CS) should be between 10 and 15%, the CS rate in the UK has not reduced in recent years and...
Group B streptococcus (GBS) is the most common cause of sepsis and meningitis in infants less than 3 months of age (Heath and Schuchat, 2007; Stoll et al, 2011) Of those babies infected, about 10% die...
Domestic violence towards pregnant women is both a serious public health and human rights concern Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been defined as any incident or pattern of incidents of...
In-utero fetal activity is seen as the hallmark of fetal wellbeing and a vital marker in the routine surveillance of unborn babies, with a further advantage that it can be assessed regularly by the...
The first national review of maternity care since Maternity Matters has been announced and is already underway (Department of Health (DH), 2007) The review, which was promised in the Five Year Forward...
Maternal blood pressure Taking and recording blood pressure (BP) is a task that many midwives and maternity support workers undertake daily This article is an excellent review of blood pressure in...
An American woman was recently sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a court in Indiana for neglect of a dependent and feticide (Valenti, 2015) The 33-year-old woman attended an emergency department...
Arguably, the biggest challenge within maternity care is ‘meeting the health and social care needs of a rapidly changing population’ (Department of Health, 2010: 11) By providing evidence-based...
There has been great controversy surrounding the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) decision to review the role of the Supervisor of Midwives (SoM) From a student's perspective, we do not have much...
Midwives must ‘always practise in line with the best available evidence’ (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), 2015a: 7) in order to provide safe and effective care The purpose of the revised Code and...
While undertaking a Person-Centred Care in Practice (PCCiP) masters module, I began to reflect on relationships within maternity care I wondered if midwifery remained as the ultimate relational, women...
In 2013, it was estimated that 1 068 000 people in England had a degree of a learning disability (Public Heath England, 2013), yet there are no accurate records of the numbers of parents with a...
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