Working Together to Deliver Safe Care Helen Elliott-Mainwaring – THIS Institute PhD Fellow and Midwifery Lecturer, School of Healthcare, University of Leicester, UK Social @HelenMainwaring Charlotte Phillips – PhD Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Safety Science School of Health, Science and Wellbeing, Staffordshire University, UK Social @CPhillipsRM Paul Bowie – PhD Programme Director (Safety & […]
Culture Change… Why is it so Difficult?
Culture Change… Why is it so Difficult? Sophie House (she/her) – Lead Bereavement and Rainbow Clinic Midwife, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust and Portsmouth University Hospitals Trust @SophiiHouse Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 26 Issue 11 December 2023, Pages 40-41 https://doi.org/10.55975/MZIN1903 Summary Making changes within the healthcare setting is full of challenges that everyone faces […]
Portable Video Media: Improving the Induction of Labour Journey
Portable Video Media: Improving the Induction of Labour Journey Niamh Smit – Midwife, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Twitter @SmitNiamh Sam Todd (he/him) – Birth Centre Manager and Professional Midwifery Advocate, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Twitter @samueltodd16 Kookie Salt – Professional Midwifery Advocate and Matron for Birth Centre, Triage and […]
Reflections on Use of Quality Improvement Methods for Anti-Racism Work in a Maternity Department
Reflections on Use of Quality Improvement Methods for Anti-Racism Work in a Maternity Department Sara Neiman – Midwife, University College Hospital, London Josephine Oamen – Clinical Site Manager, RCM Health and Safety Rep, UCLH Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Staff Network Co-Chair, Wellbeing Champion Rashida Sanni Abdus-Salaam – Labour Ward Co-ordinator, UCLH Black, Asian and […]
Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS) in action- Part 2
Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS) in action- Part 2: The reflections from two PMAs/Midwifery lecturers. Jane Tyler, University of Hull, Lisa Lachanudis, University of Hull In Part 1, the Midwifery lecturers and PMAs at the University of Hull identified the potential opportunity for provision of restorative Clinical Supervision sessions for student midwives in their […]
Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS) in action – Part 1
Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS) in action – the reflections from two PMAs/Midwifery lecturers – Part 1 Jane Tyler, University of Hull, Lisa Lachanudis, University of Hull What is Restorative Clinical Supervision? Restorative Clinical Supervision as identified by Wallbank (see here restorativesupervision) is one element of the Advocating for Education and […]
FAB Change Week: Calling All Rebels… What Will You Pledge?
FAB Change Week: Calling All Rebels… What Will You Pledge? Jane Douthwaite – Third year Student Midwife at Northumbria University, National Coordinator of the Academy of Fabulous Stuff’s Fab Ambassadors Team and joint lead of the social movement Fab Change Week Published in the Practising Midwife Volume 20 Issue 10 November 2017 Introduction Change management […]
Quality Care Matters – Advancing Practice Through Clinical Audit
Quality Care Matters – Advancing Practice Through Clinical Audit Anna Byrom – Midwifery Lecturer at University of Central Lancashire Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 20 Issue 3 March 2017 Summary This article outlines the essentials of audit design and implementation. Effective audit can be used as a tool to advance practice for quality maternity […]
Where There Was Love… Compassionate Midwifery as Protection Against Trauma
Where There Was Love… Compassionate Midwifery as Protection Against Trauma Rebecca Knapp – Midwife at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 18 Issue 3 March 2015 Summary Midwifery is more than a job; it is a privilege and honour where a woman chooses to allow us into one of […]
A Woman-led Approach to Improving Postnatal Care
A Woman-led Approach to Improving Postnatal Care Claire Fryer-Croxall – Modern Matron and Supervisor of Midwives University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Elizabeth Bailey – Midwife Research Fellow at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 17 Issue 7 July/August 2014 Summary As a large NHS teaching trust […]