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Midwives from Southampton scoop national award for app that improves maternity safety
Three midwives working at University Hospital Southampton, have won a national award for their work developing an ‘incredibly successful’ app that improves maternity care for women during their pregnancy. The
17 June 2023, Thyroid Masterclass; Virtual course
The Marion Gluck Training Academy has announced the launch of its new virtual, accredited course ‘Thyroid Masterclass.’ The course has been developed specifically to the needs of practitioners looking for
Caring for mental health in maternity
Extra support from a new team of specialist midwives is now available to help people with mental health issues and worries around having a baby and becoming a parent. York
New app helps midwives spot health issues at birth
Digital resource provides important information to midwives, students and healthcare staff A new app that will help healthcare practitioners, educators and student midwives screen for health conditions at birth has
Latest MBRRACE-UK figures for maternal and perinatal mortality in the UK are published
The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, led from Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), has recently published data on women who died during, or up to six weeks after, pregnancy between 2019
Experts call for monitoring of respiratory vaccine after trials suggest possible increase in preterm births
Pfizer says vaccine is safe and effective, but trial results prompt calls for further analysis of data and post-approval monitoring Experts have called for further scrutiny of a new Pfizer
Tommy’s launches new strategy to grow research, improve care and end inequities
Tommy’s – a UK’s charity funding pregnancy research – is launching a new strategy to guide its next decade of work, with a new vision and goals to grow research, improve maternity care,
Perinatal mental health gets virtual reality treatment in ground-breaking training programme
England has become the first country in the world to launch clinical training in perinatal mental health using extended reality (XR) technology. Perinatal mental health conditions affect between 10 and
21-22 June 2023, RCOG Basic Practical Skills in Obstetrics and Gynaecology; RCOG
The RCOG Basic Practical Skills course (BPS) is designed to introduce trainees to safe surgical techniques and obstetric clinical skills, in a structured workshop environment. The course is standardised to
Royal College of Midwives adds The Positive Birth Company’s Closing the Gap workshop to Decolonising Midwifery Education Toolkit
The Decolonising Midwifery Education toolkit has been created by the RCM in response to figures which show Black, Mixed Heritage and Asian women are more likely to die giving birth
