Tommy’s charity have launched a campaign in partnership with King College, London and BabyCare called #AlwaysAsk. It aims to empower and reassure pregnant women that they are not wasting time or being a nuisance when raising concerns to a health professional during pregnancy.
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Award winning report presented by The London Maternity Clinical Network into its review of maternal deaths. The London Maternity Clinical Network established the Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Working Group in 2015 and they have published their findings into the maternal deaths in London in their first annual report.
Sands are working to develop a Bereavement Care Pathway to ensure parents receive the best possible care after the loss of their baby. With the Department of Health’s support a draft is expected by Autumn 2017.
The independent team, led by Donna Ockenden looking at the care of older people with mental health problems in North Wales has joined forces with the North Wales Community Health Council (NWCHC); and confirmed some of the dates and locations for listening and engagement events across the whole region this Spring.
Donna Ockenden, senior midwifery advisor to the chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), discusses the changing representation of midwives at the regulator.
Health officials are working with GPs, dentists, opticians and pharmacists across North Wales to help them deliver services in Welsh. Community-based language initiative Menter Iaith Bangor is working with the Welsh Language Unit of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) across Gwynedd and Anglesey.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board says conditions have improved on the Fali ward at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley since the damning report. They state that a lot of progress has been achieved against the recommendations made by Health Inspectorate Wales a year ago.
The RCM’s annual State of Maternity Services Report was launched in parliament, with a wealth of attendees from all parties, all parts of the UK, and both Houses of Parliament. The report found that the profession is facing shortages because over a third of midwives in the UK are nearing retirement age. It also mentioned the continued increase in births to older mothers, and the need for more midwives to care for them.
Every hour, a woman in England attends a medical appointment where Female genital mutilation (FGM) is identified, a report by children’s charity Plan International UK has said. The RCM has coverage regarding FGM on it’s website.
Service veterans being helped by a North Wales charity have created an oasis of peace in a hospital garden. The outside area at the Ablett Psychiatric Unit at Ysbyty Glan Clywd, Bodelwyddan is being transformed by a group of volunteers.
NHS England have issued a Patient Safety Alert signposting to newly published resources to support safer care for full-term babies. This is part of the Atain programme which is working to support the prevention of harm that can lead to newborns being admitted to neonatal units.
Thousands of newborn babies are being separated from their mothers unnecessarily in NHS hospitals, a report by the health regulator says. The number of babies taken away from mothers has soared by 150 per cent in just five years, with a third removed from women in their teens. The worrying figures showed more needs to be done to prevent the cycle of failure. Donna Ockenden supports Birte Harlev-Lam’s view.