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A maternity manager and a maternity commissioner have won one of the UK’s top midwifery prizes at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Annual Awards, the UK’s most prestigious midwifery awards, held in London on 27th January, 2010. Tracy Beeching, a ...
Posted: 08/02/2010> Read More
Two senior midwives and academics from Salford have won one of the UK’s top midwifery prizes at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Annual Awards, the UK’s most prestigious midwifery awards, held in London on 27th January, 2010. Kathryn Murphy, a He...
Posted: 05/02/2010> Read More
Commenting on the study published today (Wednesday, 3rd February 2010) in the British Journal of Psychiatry on pregnant women and the ‘baby brain myth’, Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, said: “This is useful researc...
Posted: 03/02/2010> Read More
Commenting on the study published today (Wednesday, 3rd February 2010), in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology on mothers having a vaginal birth after three or more previous caesarean sections, Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Ro...
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Government policies and programmes have not significantly improved the health of the under-fives in the past decade, according to a new study by the Audit Commission.
Giving Children a Healthy Start, published today (3 February), says more than £...
Posted: 03/02/2010> Read More
Plans to provide easier routes to peer reviewed, evidence-based information relating to maternity care, took a further step forward today, when UK based maternity charity, MIDIRS, relaunched its website (www.midirs.org).
Frequently cited as the de...
Posted: 02/02/2010> Read More
New research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme (NIHR HTA) will assess whether adopting an upright position during the late stage of labour with an epidural, gives a greater chance of hav...
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Two midwives from Wales have won one of the UK’s top midwifery prizes at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Annual Awards, the UK’s most prestigious midwifery awards, held in London on 27th January, 2010. Maggie Davies, consultant midwife, and Liz ...
Posted: 02/02/2010> Read More
Midwives and healthcare professionals can now order the latest edition of The Young Woman’s Guide to Pregnancy on-line through Tommy's, a charity involved in maternal and fetal research in the UK, by visiting the charity’s new online store at www.tom...
Posted: 02/02/2010> Read More
A midwife specialising in normal and natural childbirth from Wolverhampton has won one of the UK’s top midwifery prizes at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Annual Awards, the UK’s most prestigious midwifery awards, held in London on 27th January, ...
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