Recent conversations have reconnected me to important work about how professional regulators can connect to the human aspects of their work - have a read of my blog 👇 GMC Nursing and Midwifery Council GPhC Professional Standards Authority OU Health, Wellbeing & Social Care #compassionateregulation #humanisingcare Sarah Massie she/her🇺🇦🇪🇺

Continuous fetal monitoring using CTG, and guidelines. I chose not to resign from the 2014 NICE Intrapartum Care committee over the CTG evidence, in order to remain part of the conversation. It was a tough decision. ⁦NICE⁩ birthsmalltalk.com/2024/03/27/why…

This year Flatpack Festival will take place without the Electric as a venue, for the first time in 18 years. The Markwick family who run the cinema have made the difficult decision to close down this week.

Read more over on the blog: flatpackfestival.org.uk/news/the-elect…

📢We are hiring!
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to be involved in evaluation and research about the impact of the #egaprogramme jointly run by Uni of Birmingham and NHS Leadership Academy 💙.
For more information and to apply go to 👇
jobs.ac.uk/job/DFS936/res…

In seeking support for my daughter, I think I might have discovered that NO ONE is currently commissioned to care for people with Tourette’s and tics in Oxfordshire?? Please prove me wrong NHS BOB ICB OUH

Calling for a national, whole-system root & branch examination of maternity care provision, to establish the content, design, extent and limits for a publically funded maternity service that optimise equitable short & long term outcomes and wellbeing.
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Sometimes, just sometimes, I breathe a sigh of relief when using this platform.

Thank you ⁦Prof Helen Cheyne⁩ et al

NICE guidance update on use of on sterile water injections as a pain relief option for women experiencing backpain in labour | The BMJ bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Important new evidence on cord clamping showing that most reduction in premature babies deaths occurs with clamping at >2 minutes. We've done this in Liverpool since 2012 with LifeStart trolley 😀 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Susan Bewley NIHR Research Research @ LWH @livuniresthemes

Latest UK maternal mortality figures released today. The maternal death rate in 2020-22 was 13.41 per 100,000 maternities. This is significantly 53% higher than the rate of 8.79 deaths per 100,000 maternities in the previous three year period (2017-19). buff.ly/3HfFpCO

Calling all service users, organisations, midwives and those interested in maternity services – help us influence the future of research! We have just released the first survey within our #RCMresearchpriorities project. Learn more: buff.ly/48L4yRO

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New inscription on the #IntangibleHeritage List: Midwifery: knowledge, skills and practices, #Colombia 🇨🇴, #Cyprus 🇨🇾, #Germany 🇩🇪, #Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬, #Luxembourg 🇱🇺, #Nigeria 🇳🇬, #Slovenia 🇸🇮, #Togo 🇹🇬.

Congratulations!

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It is hard to quite imagine how my experience of the time of Neve’s terminal illness could possibly be in any way akin to the time of my pregnancy with Neve. And yet, somehow, the final months and years of her life regularly ...

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Absence
Living in the world that we live in, I am surrounded by families. Previously, I didn’t pay much attention to how many children were in a family. Now, however unwittingly, I tally them up. As I do so, I mentally shift them into ...

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How have UK midwifery units, and the women planning birth in those settings, changed over the past 15 years? Fancy studying for a #PhD and finding out? Great opportunity here 👀 Oxford Population Health (OxPop) NPEU-Oxford UKMidSS tinyurl.com/2cndv7m5

A decade with an epicure

Neve and food, food and Neve. Entwined, crammed into a decade. From around the middle of her first year, until around the middle of her tenth year. A crowded time of delighting in eating, of her quirks and ...

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Have you or a family member used OBS services between July 2022 and 2023? Please take a moment to fill out our impact survey!

You can find the survey here: bit.ly/OBSimpact23

Clinical ethics symposium: Choice and autonomy in obstetrics: 5 Sept, 2-5pm, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
What does it mean for women’s autonomy be respected in obstetrics? How should health professionals respond to refusals of treatment or to requests for care outside normal…

Check out this research output at King's College London: Midwives’ morale, recruitment and retention – a rapid scoping review with some observations from the profession of social work kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publ…

As the regulator for 788k nursing & midwifery professionals Nursing and Midwifery Council sits on a goldmine of evidence. We want to use it to improve learning & practice & influence safe & inclusive working environments
Delighted we’ve published our 1st insight report nmc.org.uk/news/news-and-…
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