MAMA Academy has launched a new initiative in partnership with The London Ambulance Service which aims to improve response times when transferring pregnant mothers to hospital and saving more babies lives. Call cards have been produced for London based midwives which advise when to request an emergency ambulance and provide the key contact details and trigger words.
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Sands have published an update outlining progress of the National Bereavement Care Pathway on their website. Working with the Department of Health, the pathway is being developed to ensure parents receive the best possible care after the loss of their baby.
Tommy’s charity have launched a campaign in partnership with King College, London and BabyCare called #AlwaysAsk. It aims to empower and reassure pregnant women that they are not wasting time or being a nuisance when raising concerns to a health professional during pregnancy.
Award winning report presented by The London Maternity Clinical Network into its review of maternal deaths. The London Maternity Clinical Network established the Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Working Group in 2015 and they have published their findings into the maternal deaths in London in their first annual report.
Sands are working to develop a Bereavement Care Pathway to ensure parents receive the best possible care after the loss of their baby. With the Department of Health’s support a draft is expected by Autumn 2017.
The independent team, led by Donna Ockenden looking at the care of older people with mental health problems in North Wales has joined forces with the North Wales Community Health Council (NWCHC); and confirmed some of the dates and locations for listening and engagement events across the whole region this Spring.
Donna Ockenden, senior midwifery advisor to the chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), discusses the changing representation of midwives at the regulator.
Health officials are working with GPs, dentists, opticians and pharmacists across North Wales to help them deliver services in Welsh. Community-based language initiative Menter Iaith Bangor is working with the Welsh Language Unit of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) across Gwynedd and Anglesey.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board says conditions have improved on the Fali ward at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley since the damning report. They state that a lot of progress has been achieved against the recommendations made by Health Inspectorate Wales a year ago.
The RCM’s annual State of Maternity Services Report was launched in parliament, with a wealth of attendees from all parties, all parts of the UK, and both Houses of Parliament. The report found that the profession is facing shortages because over a third of midwives in the UK are nearing retirement age. It also mentioned the continued increase in births to older mothers, and the need for more midwives to care for them.
Every hour, a woman in England attends a medical appointment where Female genital mutilation (FGM) is identified, a report by children’s charity Plan International UK has said. The RCM has coverage regarding FGM on it’s website.