What's new in midwifery - 18th December 2019

Some recent things you might want to know about...

Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity (MBRRACE-UK)

Saving lives, improving mothers’ care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2015-17
Read more, and link to the report, on the HQIP site. 

Fetal and neonatal haemochromatosis

NHS England
Clinical commissioning policy: Maternal intravenous immunoglobulin for the prevention of allo-immune fetal and neonatal haemochromatosis

Global health

USAID's Maternal and Child Survival Program is ending

Hypertension in pregnancy

Clinical Knowledge Summaries - summary updated.

National Neonatal Audit Programme (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health)

2019 annual report on 2018 data
Read more, and link to the report, on the HQIP site.

Perinatal mental health

NHS England / NHS Improvement: Implementing routine outcome monitoring in specialist perinatal mental health services. 

Weight management interventions before, during and after pregnancy

Public Health England Knowledge and Library Services Evidence Briefing: Are healthy weight management interventions effective before, during and after pregnancy?



This is the last post of 2019.    Back in 2020, after Christmas and Hanukkah.  Season's greetings.

Acknowledgements: Caroline de Brun, PHE KLS; King's Fund Library Health Policy and Management Alert; Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin.