Support for home birth midwives caring for women with additional needs: a phenomenological study

Intrapartum midwifery care for women's enhanced childbirth: a concept analysis

A novel maternity clinical supervision service: overview and outcomes

Exploring safeguarding midwives' experiences of caring for pregnant women with substance dependency

This study used interpretative phenomenological analysis, a methodology with roots are in psychology and theoretical pillars in phenomenology, hermeneutics and idiography (Smith and Nizza, 2021)....

A qualitative exploration of midwives' and ambulance clinicians' experiences working together

This phenomenological study explored interpersonal dynamics and individual experiences of midwives and ambulance clinicians using both focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. Plummer (2017)...

The pay and conditions debate: the reality of the working environment in midwifery higher education

The average starting salary for a lecturer in the UK is £34 308 (University and College Union (UCU), 2023). This is less than the £35 392 received at entry step point for Band 6 midwives (NHS...

Impact of the midwife-led care model on mode of birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A systematic review is the best approach to determine the most effective intervention/treatment in clinical decision-making (Harvey and Land, 2017). This method follows explicit, rigorous and...

The Ockenden café initiative

The cafés are organised and attended by a multidisciplinary team that includes obstetricians, midwives, neonatologists, anaesthetists and service user representatives. Students, trainees, maternity...

Exploring informed consent in midwifery care

Faden and Beauchamp (1989) suggested that historically, the fundamentals of informed consent as we understand them in a contemporary context, are a relatively recent development in medical ethics,...

Exploring midwives' emotional wellbeing: evaluation of a survey using cognitive interviews

This article presents the process of survey development and the two pre-testing methods that preceded a conventional pilot: cognitive interviews and a discussion group. Cognitive interviews are...

Growing the midwifery workforce

One glaring issue that is not discussed is the removal of tuition fees for undergraduate midwifery programmes. The government restored funding for healthcare programmes in the form of a maintenance...

Future clinical academic midwife

The intention to increase the capacity of nursing, midwifery and allied health professions-led research is clear.