What's new in midwifery - 13th March 2019

Some things you may need to know about…

NICE Guidance

NG121– Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies, published March 2019

Health Education England

Maternity Workforce Strategy – Transforming the maternity workforce

Case studies

Atlas of Shared Learning 

Implementing the Mum and BabyApp across North-West London

Reducing perineal tears duringchildbirth at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

Other case studies

Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership - Work to improve access to specialist community perinatal mental health services 

Film review

Tigers review – crusader confronts baby formula scandal (Guardian)

NIHR Signals 

Updated evidence on progesterone to prevent preterm birth in at-risk pregnancies. Review of research published in BJOG 

Statistics

Statistics on women’s smoking status at time of delivery: England – October to December 2018 

Public Health England

Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2019

These documents are from the antenatal and newborn screening programme. 

 Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin