Midwifery Resources
Resources
Women’s Health Strategy For England, December 2021
Health and Social Care Committee’s Report, July 2021
The Lancet; Miscarriage Matters, April 2021
Compassionate Communication Whilst Wearing PPE, August 2020
NHS Maternity Statistics, 2019-20
CQC Maternity Services Survey 2019
NHS Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle version 2, March 2019
Co-designed solutions: #MindNBody – a holistic approach to perinatal mental health, 2019
Perinatal Mortality Review Tool, January 2018
Rapid Resolution & Redress Scheme For Birth Injury; Consultation Response, November 2017
DH Safer Maternity Care Plan, November 2017
RCM I-learn Module “Saving Babies Lives; Addressing Stillbirth”, November 2017
Maternity Bereavement Experience Measure Questionnaire, July 2017
NHS Next Steps; Five Year Forward Review, March 2017
NHS Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle, March 2016
SBAR Communication Tool from Kings Hospital, 2012
Reports
Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update summary, October 2022
Staffing shortages – APPG report, October 2022
Ockdenden Review at the Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust, March 2022
MBRRACE-UK: Perinatal Surveillance Report 2019 October 2021
First Ockenden Review: Maternity Services at The Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust December 2020
MBRRACE-UK: Signs of Life, UK Clinical Guidance November 2020
MBRRACE-UK: Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care Rapid Report: Learning from SARS-CoV-2-related and associated maternal deaths in the UK March-May 2020
Intrapartum‐related perinatal deaths in births planned in midwifery‐led settings in Great Britain: findings and recommendations from the ESMiE confidential enquiry, May 2020
Closing The Gap – published February 2020
Closing the Gap is an analysis of maternity safety training based on recommendations from Baby Lifeline’s Mind the Gap Report (2018).
Better for women: RCOG report on improving the health and wellbeing of girls and women, December 2019
RCOG Each Baby Counts: 2019 Progress Report
CMV Counting The Costs
Congenial CMV costs the UK around £750 million a year. An important report with recommendations on reducing the number of babies affected by CMV, 2019
London Maternal Mortality Thematic Review, June 2019
Maternal Health Around The World
Resource that explores maternal health around the world and brings awareness towards improving maternal mortality. Created by Georgetown University’s online Midwifery program, April 2019
NHS Long Term Plan to Reduce Stillbirths by 50% by 2025 – Published January 2019
Plan for maternity services in reducing stillbirth, maternal morbidity, neonatal mortality and serious brain injury by 50% by 2025.
National Neonatal Audit Programme Annual Report 2019
Each Baby Counts by RCOG – Published November 2018
Collating the results of local investigations into stillbirths, neonatal deaths and brain injuries occurring during term labour.
Mind The Gap – Published November 2018
An investigation into Maternity training for front line professionals across the UK (2017/2018).
Maternity DMA Report, October 2018
RCM’s State Of Maternity Services Report, 2018
MBRRACE-UK: Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care – Published November 2018
Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2014–16.
MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report 2018
MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report: UK Perinatal deaths for births from January to December 2017
MBRRACE-UK: Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care: Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2015–17
MBRRACE Intrapartum Stillbirths and Related Neonatal Deaths, November 2017
RCOG National Maternity & Perinatal Clinical Report, November 2017
Brain injury occurring during or soon after birth: annual incidence and rates of brain injuries to monitor progress against the national maternity ambition. (2016 and 2017 data)
Department of Health Safer Maternity Care, Next Steps, October 2016
MBRRACE Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report, May 2016
NHS Spotlight On Maternity, March 2016
National Maternity Report; Better Births, February 2016
The Lancet, Ending Preventable Stillbirths Jan 2016
Exploring the Intangible Economic Costs of Stillbirth September 2015
Nurse & Midwife Code, March 2015
Statistics
ONS; Child and infant mortality in England and Wales 2020
National Records Of Scotland – 2020
ONS: Births for England and Wales; Summary Tables – 2020
ONS: Births for England and Wales; Summary Tables – 2019
ONS: Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages – 2018
ONS; Stillbirth Numbers and Rates for England and Wales to 2018
ONS; Infant, neonatal and postneonatal mortality rates to 2018
ONS; Stillbirth Numbers and Rates for England and Wales to 2017
ONS; Infant, neonatal and postneonatal mortality rates to 2017
HSCIC NHS Maternity Statistics 2013 – 2014
Studies
Association between the consumption of caffeine and late stillbirth, October 2020
Awareness of fetal movements and care package to reduce fetal mortality (AFFIRM), September 2018
The Cost of Stillbirth, December 2017
MiNESS Research and the Sleep On Side Campaign, November 2017
Stillbirth Priority Setting Partnership Conclusions, May 2015
Self-hypnosis for intra-partum pain management in nulliparous women, May 2015
Association Between Reduced Stillbirth Rates & Training in Fetal Growth Assessment, November 2013
RCOG Induction of Labour at Term in Older Mothers, February 2013