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Learn more about our Gold award winner – Gillian Barber

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/ 01/09/2012 / Leave a comment

As regular readers of Essence will know, MIDIRS has decided to give our very own Gold award to one of our longest-standing subscribers in this Olympic year. Gillian Barber is our lucky winner and has won a MIDIRS Gold subscription for two years and a bottle of Fairtrade Brut, kindly...
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Digesting September

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/ 01/09/2012 / Leave a comment

- a snapshot of this September’s MIDIRS Midwifery Digest. Perhaps it’s the fast approach of autumn, but September sees the Digest in a reflective mood. For example, in this quarter’s Hot Topic, Rosemary Mander considers the changes in midwifery practice she has seen throughout her career. Her piece provides us...
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Global Twinning Project

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/ 01/09/2012 / Leave a comment

After the initial reaction to the news that the RCM Global Midwifery Twinning Project had been given the Multi-Country Partnership Scheme award, the reality of the massive undertaking hit us. This project is funded through the Health Partnership Scheme, which is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID)...
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Midwifery and obstetric knowledge: thinking deeply about birth

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/ 01/09/2012 / Leave a comment

In this month’s edition of Essentially MIDIRS, Jo Murphy-Lawless takes a historical look at how obstetric science has viewed women and their bodies. Here is a preview of her article, which begins by analysing knowledge in relation to the use of Walcher’s position. Midwifery and obstetric knowledge: thinking deeply about...
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‘In my first week I ended up delivering a baby in an auto rickshaw…’

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/ 01/09/2012 / Leave a comment

- VSO midwife describes her experiences training health workers to save lives in Ethiopia. International development charity VSO is calling for midwives from the UK to consider volunteering in Ethiopia, where 9000 women lose their lives through birthing complications each year and only 10% of women have access to a...
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Learn more about our Gold award winner – Gillian Barber

Digesting September

Global Twinning Project

Midwifery and obstetric knowledge: thinking deeply about birth

‘In my first week I ended up delivering a baby in an auto rickshaw…’

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