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Director for Midwifery, Royal College of Midwives
As autumn approaches my thoughts turn, not to the new school term or autumn leaves but to the subject of vaccination Perhaps not what you thought I would say but, as midwives, we have access to a...
Air pollution is high on the news agenda Many UK cities are in breach of EU clean air regulations and are looking to see how the situation can be improved Consideration is being given to ultra-low...
The long-awaited future midwife consultation has been launched by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) It is made up of two parts: standards of proficiency for midwives (what they need to know and...
Audit of services can highlight areas of practice ripe for improvement This was the case for obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI), when a large-scale review showed an increase in occurrence for...
New Year is a man-made concept, but nonetheless it is important as a way of marking progress through time, as well as enabling the celebration of birthdays and anniversaries January sees the start of...
Safety is high up on the health agenda—and rightly so Providing evidence-based, safe, quality care, first time, is effective and makes efficient use of resources However, there is one aspect that...
Why, more than 100 years after it was first celebrated, do we still need to observe International Women's Day? Surely, as women make up more than half of the world's population, the need for it has...
On a visit to present the new model from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) (2017), ‘Stepping up to Public Health’, to midwives in Sweden, I was struck both by how much we have in common and how much...
Certain words raise my hackles almost automatically One example is people referring to ‘nurses’ providing maternity care As I have shouted at the television and radio many times, no they don't! After...
There will be surprise and shock among UK midwives following the Nursing and Midwifery Council's decision that statutory supervision of midwives should no longer be part of its legal framework (NMC,...
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