What's new in midwifery - 28th August 2019

Maternite, by Renoir

Maternite, or, L'enfant au sein, in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.   Read more about it in French here. 

Some recent things...

NICE Consultations

Intrapartum care: women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies: quality standard consultation
This is a draft quality standard, due for publication in February 2020, and you can comment until 23rd September at 5 pm.

Statistics

Female genital mutilation

Global health

Developing and applying a "living guidelines" approach to WHO recommendations on maternal and perinatal health
"Living guidelines" is a continuous approach to updating recommendations.   There are links to the recommendations themselves.


Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin, HIFA email discussion list.  And my wife Suzanne for taking me to some art galleries in Paris!

What's new in midwifery - 21st August 2019

Some recent (some less so) things you might like to know about:

Statistics

Birth summary tables, England and Wales 2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/birth-summary-tables-england-and-wales-2018

Births in England and Wales: summary tables
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/birthsummarytables

Antenatal and screening data January - March 2019
via https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-screening-programmes-kpi-reports-2018-to-2019

Research

Antibiotics after assisted vaginal delivery (NIHR Signals)

Teenage mothers' experience of repeat pregnancies (in London, published in Journal of Advanced Nursing)

NICE

Preterm labour and birth - guideline (NG25)

Preterm labour and birth - quality standard (QS135)

News

Pregnant women left without midwives as home-birth service closes (One to One Midwives, which works in Essex and the north west of England)

The five: medical biases against women

Birth rate in England and Wales at all-time low

Tommy's National Centre for Maternity Improvement
Initiative launched by RCOG, RCM and Tommy's


Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin, King's Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert