02 April 2017 02 Apr 2017

How can universities ‘ASSIST’ student midwives with additional needs to achieve?

In terms of literacy and numeracy, the NMC Standards for Pre-registration Midwifery Education (2009) state that for an applicant to be accepted onto a pre-registration midwifery programme they must be able to ‘manipulate numbers accurately […] including using a calculator’ and ‘read and comprehend (in English or Welsh) and communicate clearly and effectively in writing, including a computer’ (NMC, 2009)