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At the end of January 2019, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) released its annual report into maternity services, based on data from more that 17 600 women who gave birth in February 2018. While...
I palpate an oncoming contraction ‘Your bump feels really warm,’ I say to the woman I'm caring for, ‘do you feel OK?’ She replies, shrugging: ‘Yes, I feel fine’ All the observations were normal, the...
This book has more than 370 pages and 29 chapters providing some in-depth evidence-based knowledge. The book is suitable for all levels of midwifery, and topics range from why women should breastfeed,...
Working together for patients is a core NHS value (Department of Health, 2015), and the public expects to receive high quality care from a well-trained, cohesive workforce Landmark reports (Laming,...
The past decade has seen significant, system-wide changes to the midwifery profession
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) regulates practice for nurses and midwives in the UK It sets standards to support learning and assessment in clinical practice and the education of...
An investment in strategies to promote ‘a healthy start to life’ is thought to reduce health inequalities across the entire course of life (Marmot et al, 2012) Extensive research has been conducted...
Antenatal yoga has numerous benefits for women, including increased comfort in labour, decreased pain in labour and decreased length of labour (Chuntharapat et al, 2008; Jahdi et al, 2017)...
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are classified as gestational hypertension, pre-existing or chronic hypertension and pre-eclampsia HDP complicate 10% of pregnancies and the incidence of...
Midwifery education is facing many challenges in finding clinical placements to meet curriculum requirements to educate and prepare midwifery students in specialised areas (Brady et al, 2015)
Postpartum (or puerperal) psychosis is a severe mood disorder characterised by acute onset manic or affective psychosis (Dias and Jones, 2016), usually within 2 weeks after childbirth (Norhayati et...
We have made significant improvements in maternity care: an 188% reduction in stillbirths (Office for National Statistics (ONS), 2018a), a 58% reduction in neonatal mortality (ONS, 2018b) and an 8%...
In 1977, Illich et al identified the rise of so-called professionals, such as lifestyle counsellors and food fad experts, who fed on consumers' ‘splintered needs and fractured self-confidence’ (Illich...
What a great opportunity: 800 words to revolutionise midwifery! Perhaps my naïve ambition is somewhat overstated, yet change is necessary to prevent our nation's incredibly passionate tribe of...
Each issue of British Journal of Midwifery is dependent on an essential team of peer reviewers to bring our readers the very best midwifery research and clinical content Peer reviewers play an...
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