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Birthrate Plus®: What it is and why you should be using it
Information on how this midwifery workforce planning tool can give you assurance about quality and safety.
Facilitating Women's Choices: Can the NHS and Independent Midwives Work Together?
In response to requests for advice from some maternity services, the RCM is issuing this guidance. We respect that Directors and Heads of Midwifery will continue to make decisions about their staffing and making relationships with others ...
Freestanding Midwifery Units: Busting the myths
The purpose of this paper is to present a balanced source of evidence-based information, which can help challenge some of the outdated assumptions about the safety, popularity and efficiency of birth centres (FMUs) and clarify their role ...
High Quality Midwifery Care
Delivering high quality maternity care is the responsibility of every midwife. We all need to be activists determined to take both small and big steps to directly or indirectly improve care. This paper is written primarily for midwives and ...
Maternity Support Worker Advocate - role description
MSWs play a vital role in supporting midwives to deliver quality care to babies, mothers and their families. This leaflet provides details about MSW Advocates - a description of the role, what they do and the benefits that the position offers.
Specialist Mental Health Midwives: What they do and why they matter
Specialist Mental Health Midwives have a crucial role in effective perinatal mental health care. However, there are currently many maternity services without this important position. This document aims to help address this gap.
Working with Birthrate Plus®
Birthrate Plus® is the only national tool available for calculating midwifery staffing levels. Discover how this midwifery workforce planning tool can give you assurance about quality and safety.
Guidance on flexible working 2018
We have developed this publication to make the case for more flexible working opportunities for midwives and maternity support workers. Flexible working benefits midwives and maternity support workers by allowing them to create a better ...
Evidence Based Midwifery - December 2018
Research dissemination and impact: Reflections on the Doctoral Midwifery Research Society’s Spotlight on Breastfeeding Research | Interventions to increase the initiation of breastfeeding | Transitional experiences of internationally ...