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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
Every woman and baby deserves the safest birth experience possible, no matter the place of birth This means ensuring that all professionals have the equipment and training to feel confident, competent...
Breast milk will always be the ideal food for all babies: the benefits that it offers in encouraging health, growth and development cannot be replicated But for mothers who are unable to feed their...
The World Health Organization (WHO) (2015a) estimates that in the UK, 249−291% of births are by caesarean section, despite evidence illustrating that caesarean section rates greater than 10% fail to...
Diabetes is one of the most common complications of pregnancy and encompasses gestational diabetes mellitus, which is diagnosed during pregnancy; and pre-existing diabetes, which includes type 1...
Background The role played by the delivery suite co-ordinator in providing safe care has often been overlooked, especially in major maternity policies. There is a paucity of research into this role,...
The majority (approximately 87%) of births in the UK take place in a hospital-based obstetric unit (National Audit Office, 2013) with the remainder in midwifery-led settings such as birth centres or...
Midwives must be autonomous practitioners, a stipulation of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2018) This article will present a case study in which I was presented with the challenge of...
In 2017 there was a global population of 244 million international migrants, including 22 million refugees With the inevitable implications for healthcare as a result of mass population movements,...
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Each day at work, I introduce myself: ‘Hello, my name is Claire I'm one of the midwives and I'm going to be looking after you today’ This is something I say all the time; however, there is still a...
In the slight lull in news about Brexit and the Conservative party leadership contest, papers have finally been able to report on other stories, although they may not always stray far from...
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...
How do women experience care during pregnancy, birth and early motherhood amid severe disadvantage? And how do those experiences relate to women's rights to safe and appropriate care, dignity,...
Latest data show that multiple births make up 15% of all births in the UK (National Records of Scotland, 2017; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 2017; Office for National Statistics,...
The incidence of diabetes mellitus is increasing, alongside the increased prevalence of obesity, sedentary lifestyle, older age at conception and younger age at onset of type 2 diabetes, meaning that...
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