News
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MIDIRS launches #ItsAllAbout video campaign
Read More >This year’s International Day of the Midwife is being marked with a video campaign by MIDIRS in a bid to highlig...
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MAMA Academy is proud to support 1001 Critical Days
Read More >MAMA Academy is proud to be supporting 1001 Critical Days, the cross party manifesto highlighting the importance o...
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RCOG recommend no scans before 10 weeks
Read More >The RCOG have released a Scientific Impact Paper regarding the use of scans before 10 weeks (the embryonic period)...
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Healthcare journals identify threats to maternity and child health services
Read More >A joint paper published by British Journal of Midwifery, the Journal of Health Visiting and the British Journal of...
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Investment in perinatal mental health promised
Read More >In this week’s budget George Osborne has announced that over the next 5 years an additional £75m will be alloca...
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Breastfeeding research finds link with intelligence
Read More >Brazilian research, which was this week published in the Lancet, appears to demonstrate a link between duration of...
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Birth rates at an all time low
Read More >For the first time in seven years, the birth rate in the UK has dropped, particularly among young mothers. With a ...
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2013 Child & Infant Mortality Statistics Released
Read More >New child and infant mortality statistics have just been published which shows that stillbirth in the UK is contin...
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MAMA Academy joins The Healthy Newborn Network
Read More >In many communities around the world, children are not named until they survive thier first month of life – the ...
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NHS Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle
Read More >A major programme of work is being carried out by NHS England, with the involvement of the Strategic Clinical Netw...
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New NICE guidelines for Staffing Levels
Read More >NICE have released new guidelines on safe staffing levels for midwives. They recommend that women in established...
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Government publishes report into failings at Morecombe Bay NHS Trust
Read More >The government have published their report into failings at Morecombe Bay NHS Trust maternity services between 200...