Introducing MIDIRS new website
- providing direct and easy access to key educational resources for maternity health care professionals.
Plans to provide easier routes to peer reviewed, evidence-based information relating to maternity care, took a further step forward today, with the re-launch of MIDIRS new website - www.midirs.org.
MIDIRS redeveloped site boasts a fresh, contemporary look, with improved navigability, accessibility and usability functions, enabling greater access to content for visitors to the site.
Maternal death (19/11/2009)
Thankfully, maternal deaths are extremely rare in the United Kingdom. This is the result of many years of painstaking work by professionals, who have constantly reviewed their own working and organisational practices to help identify and reduce risk for women.
MIDIRS and the NCT
MIDIRS and the NCT have worked together on various projects in the past and share common goals, especially in relation to the provision of and access to information about issues and services for pregnancy, childbirth, parenting and child care.
This has now been formalised into a more comprehensive arrangement which offers greater opportunities to subscribers to MIDIRS and NCT specialist workers and students to make use of the resources of both organisations.
Since December 2008, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, has been distributed with a copy of Perspective: the NCT publication for parent-centred midwifery. By February 2010, all of NCT’s 2000-strong network of students and qualified antenatal workers, breastfeeding counselors and postnatal leaders will be benefiting from continuous professional development through access to MIDIRS online subscription service. In addition to this, there are plans for the two organisations to work together in the future on products for consumers as well as resources for education and training.