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From the Editor - September, Issue 42

Welcome to the September edition of Essence.

In this issue Debby Gould, Head of Midwifery at UCHL, offers an insightful look at how midwives, when faced with today’s challenges in the health service, can continue to deliver high quality and compassionate care by re-engaging with core values. The accompanying MIDIRS podcast reinforces this message.

This is just one of several articles which aim to provide you with relevant and useful information that can assist and support you in your studies and practice. To ensure that we continue to deliver a high quality service, please let us know your views by responding to the feedback mechanism at the end of each article.

We hope you enjoy this issue!

From the MIDIRS Essence team.

Inside first: creating a value driven service

by Debby Gould, Head of Midwifery, University College London

In these difficult times of recession, cut backs and uncertainty regarding the NHS, it is important to get midwives and nurses to understand their pivotal role in delivering high quality care.

Unfortunately it is also our clinical midwives and nurses who are most vulnerable to influence from other people and pressures which may lead them personally to cut corners in care in order to survive in difficult circumstances. The Mid Staffordshire Inquiry (The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry 2010) suggested that nurses may have become habituated into providing low standard...

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Looking for the right information – where to start

by Fran Galloway, Midwifery Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University As a midwifery lecturer I am always trying to keep abreast of the latest research and it is always a challenge when there is a plethora of information out there in various guises.

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