25 March 2019

NMC announces further changes to help boost nursing and midwifery workforce

The cost of the professional test of competence that overseas nurses, midwives and nursing associates must take to work in...

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22 March 2019

New English test set to fill NHS jobs

The future for testing English and making sure overseas healthcare staff are language-ready for work is the new Occupational English...

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20 March 2019

Is 50 the new 40 for safe childbirth?

Researchers have determined that childbirth is as safe after age 50 as age 40 without endangering the mother or the baby....

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18 March 2019

Child’s elevated mental ill-health risk if mother treated for infection during pregnancy

Risks for autism and depression are higher if one's mother was in hospital with an infection during pregnancy. This is...

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15 March 2019

Baby Lifeline launches national community midwives’ bags

Call the Midwife stars Linda Bassett and Leonie Elliott recently launched the trial of Baby Lifeline’s new standardised home delivery bag for community midwives....

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13 March 2019

Infants exposed to corticosteroids in utero are smaller at birth

Infants exposed to antenatal corticosteroid therapy (ACT) to accelerate lung maturation have a clinically significant reduction in birth size, according...

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11 March 2019

Night and weekend births have substantially higher risk of delivery complications

A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal found that the quantity of delivery complications in hospitals are substantially higher...

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8 March 2019

New robotic sensor technology can diagnose reproductive health problems in real-time

Researchers have developed new robotic sensor technology that has the capability to diagnose women’s reproductive health problems in real-time. The...

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