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How can midwives support our approach to ‘build back better and fairer’?
Like many of you, I have found the past year to be one of my most challenging. Responding to relentless work pressures while balancing caring responsibilities of a young family and ageing parents, one of whom was diagnosed with cancer following ...A blank piece of paper
What is co-production? Equality, equity, a balance of power, the ability for communities to be involved in working together with professionals to achieve change. It’s an honest desire to value and combine the strengths, knowledge and opinions ...New pathway created for women with pregnancies affected by Down Syndrome
Positive about Down syndrome (PADS) works with maternity units by providing information and support to new and expectant parents of a baby with Down syndrome. We understand how these parents crave an understanding into the lived experience ...Latest on pensions
The Government has published their response to the NHS pension scheme consultation that closed on 11 October 2020. The consultation was to decide how to correct the discrimination that has been identified in the McCloud Judgement and came ...
Being seen, being heard: Improving maternity care for black women
There is a disparity in the care given and received by black women. It’s there because there is a lack of trust between black women, healthcare services and the Government. Running The Motherhood Group, a platform where black and ethnic minority ...
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It was my partner’s 60th birthday last week. The events I had been planning since last year have been cancelled, changed and cancelled again! This is the reality of 2020 for all of us. Weddings, parties, holidays, conferences, visiting relatives, ...Time to deliver a decent pay rise: what we are doing and how to help
Midwives, maternity support workers (MSWs) and everyone else working in the NHS are long overdue a decent pay rise. Not only have you put in phenomenal effort in recent months to fight the greatest health crisis to hit Britain and the world in ...
How is ethnicity data collected in maternity?
There is mounting evidence about the health inequalities for people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. Data collection is the first step in understanding why these health inequalities exist. It is essential to accurately ...
Getting it right from the start: implementing Midwifery Continuity of Carer
Today’s midwifery students are tomorrow’s midwives. They will be staffing our services in the future, their experience of MCoC will shape their education, midwifery skills and philosophy, influencing the kind of midwives they aspire to ...