What's new in midwifery - 18th August 2022 - policy, news and statistics

Some news, policy, reports and statistics that might be useful.

‘I felt I was being assessed on my skin colour’: Black women around the world share their birth stories, Guardian.

Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: quarterly data for 2021 to 2022, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Annual Report - April 2021 to March 2022 (experimental statistics report), NHS Digital.

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - Ambitious for change: research into NMC processes and people’s protected characteristics (press release, report downloadable from there).

It was World Breastfeeding Week from 1st to 7th August 2022 (sorry) - , also you might be interested to see this video from Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, about breastfeeding while out and about.

Nuffield Trust - Inequality on the inside: using hospital data to understand the key health care issues for women in prison.

House of Commons Justice Committee - Women in prison.

Department of Health and Social Care - Women's health strategy for England.

Department of Health and Social Care - Maternity Disparities Taskforce: terms of reference.

National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) - The contribution of newborn health to child mortality across England.

Acknowledgements: King's Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert; Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Library and Knowledge Service