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Maternity

An appraisal of the East of England ‘sixty supportive steps to safety’ tool

The regional maternity team co-produced the sixty supportive steps to safety tool, alongside a maternity service user representative, the local maternity and neonatal system (involved with providing,...

Trans and non-binary experiences of maternity services: cautioning against acting without evidence

This article presents a critique of the ITEMS study, based on its report (LGBT Foundation, 2022). The authors of this article argue that the study framing lacks clarity and balance, that there is a...

Public health prevention in maternity programme: supporting the local system

Programme priorities were refreshed in 2021, informed by local healthcare data on the scale of potential benefit and maternity system requirements, among other criteria. Objectives for each new...

Providing mental healthcare for postpartum women in Indonesia: a qualitative phenomenological study

The research design was descriptive phenomenology, drawing on principles from Edmund Husserl's philosophy (Johnson, 2000), which focuses on the concept of ‘life-world’ or ‘lived experience’. The study...

Women's views on the visiting restrictions during COVID-19 in an Irish maternity hospital

This study aimed to gain an understanding of women's experiences of visiting restrictions imposed due to COVID-19 and to provide information to inform policy development in relation to visiting..

Investigation of informed consent procedures initiated in the intrapartum period

There is common agreement that the three key elements of informed consent, voluntarism, information disclosure (Office for Human Research Protections, 1979) and the decision-making capacity of an...

People with learning disabilities accessing maternity services

Public Health England has estimated that 1 087 100 people in England, including 930 400 adults, have a degree of learning difficulty (Public Health England Learning Disabilities Observatory, 2015)...

The experiences of pregnant migrant women in detention: A qualitative study

Pregnant migrant women can be held in detention in the UK for a number of reasons These include on arrival, while awaiting a decision on their right to entry; if they have been refused permission to...

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