Tuesday, December 19, 2023

What's new in midwifery - 19th December 2023

First of all, season's greetings and best wishes for a peaceful and happy 2024.

Some new things you might find useful.

Royal Colleges

Royal College of Nursing resource for nursing and midwifery practice about female genital mutilation (PDF).  There is also this supplement about sexual health care (also PDF)

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Good Practice Paper no. 17, Maternity triage (PDF)


New publications from MBRRACE

Perinatal confidential enquiry, A comparison of the care of Black and White women who have experienced a stillbirth or neonatal death, published December 2023 (PDF)

Perinatal confidential enquiry, A comparison of the care of Asian and White women  who have experienced a stillbirth or neonatal death, published December 2023 (PDF)


House of Lords Library

Maternal mortality rates in the Black community, published 12th December 2023


Research

Active pelvic movements on a Swiss ball reduced labour duration, pain, fatigue and anxiety in parturient women: a randomised trial.   Link to record in PubMed - follow full text link to access the article, which is open access.


My usual thanks to colleagues at the Library and Knowledge Service at Rotherham Hospital for their Latest Health News, which alerted me to a lot of the above, and McMaster's Evidence Alerts.

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