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02 November 2016

Volume 24 | Issue 11

ISSN (Print): 0969-4900

ISSN (Online): 2052-4307

Midwives must do more to comply with health care sharps regulations

A recent inspection initiative by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE, 2016) aimed at gauging compliance with regulations seeking to prevent injuries from health care sharps in the NHS has revealed a general failure to properly apply the requirements of the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013

Legal

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Factors influencing engagement in postnatal weight management and weight and wellbeing outcomes

Research

The case for developing an online intervention to support midwives in work-related psychological distress

Research

Acting up as the labour ward matron

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Navigating the midwifery undergraduate programme: Is resilience the key?

Education

University midwifery societies: Support for student midwives, by student midwives

Education

Heightening levels of compassion towards self and others through use of compassionate mind training

Education

Immune thrombocytopaenia in pregnancy: Key principles for the midwife

Clinical Practice

Safety, standards and experience in the midwifery profession

Conference Report

Vitamin B12 deficiency

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Ethics of egg freezing

Comment

Nurturing tomorrow's leaders

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Whatever happened to safety in numbers?

Editorial