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Seeing the same midwife or doctor in pregnancy and labour reduces the risk of birth trauma Most women give birth in public hospitals, seeing whichever midwife or doctor is rostered on. But research shows seeing the same person reduces a number of risks.

According to a new research, seeing the same midwife or team of midwives throughout pregnancy and labour is associated with lower rates of intervention and birth trauma, compared to standard care.

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Across countries and contexts, midwives and advocates are raising their voices, organising, and pushing for the investments their communities need. This blog highlights the people turning the #OneMillionMore Midwives petition into action.

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Are you a journalist covering maternal health or sexual and reproductive health rights? This is one you don’t want to miss this unique opportunity.

If you’re interested, request your media pass for the Congress now — passes are limited and demand is high.

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Silent Grief: A Qualitative Study on the Emotional and Social Impact of Early Gestational Loss Early gestational loss is a common event, yet its emotional and social impact is often underestimated. From the earliest weeks of pregnancy, many wome…

Silent Grief: A Qualitative Study on the Emotional and Social Impact of Early Gestational Loss

Ana González-Vicente, Valeria Moriconi, Montserrat González-Pascual, Loreto Salvador-Olea, Beatriz Jiménez-Gómez, Juan Luis González-Pascual

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Including pregnant and breastfeeding women in clinical trials Studies must be adapted to fill the evidence gaps

Pregnant and breastfeeding women have long been systematically excluded from clinical trials.

The choice is no longer between protection and participation, but between managed risk with evidence and unmanaged risk without it
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Happy New Year 2083 today to all my friends, colleagues and students from Nepal 🇳🇵

I Was an Enthusiastic Early Adopter of AI Scribes. Here’s Why I Stopped A GP reflects on what eighteen months of ambient scribing taught them about the consultation they thought they already understood.

AI scribes. Greta blog by @benngooch.bsky.social
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Elementary school homework with the alphabet at the top. The question says: imagine you are a wizard with a magic wand. What kind of spells would you cast? What magical things would you do? A child's handwritten answer: If I was a wizard I would make life easy. because there will be no wars and no crimenals. I will disapear every bad guy in the world so no one will get hurt. There is a drawing of a blue sky, a yellow sun, a black wizard with a wand in his hand, and a crowd of people. There's a caption bubble with the wizard saying no wars, and a caption bubble over the crowd that says everybody cheers

this is my nephew's homework and i'm gonna cry

Just saw this…it’s so great!

#food

Fabulous article! #episky

Student-led midwifery clinics as an innovative practice placement model: A mixed method evaluation Explore the experiences of pre-registration midwifery students undertaking midwifery practice experience within a university facilitated student-led m…

Student-led midwifery clinics are emerging as an innovative practice placement model, giving students hands-on experience while providing high-quality care to women.

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Fewer people posting on social media, Ofcom finds Some experts believe it highlights a social media shift as platforms boost short video.

Of relevance to recent bluesky discussion

BBC News - Fewer people posting on social media, Ofcom finds - BBC News
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Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “Management consultants are ruining UK universities”. No, fleecing.

Easter (and Passover) weekend. Somebody, right now, is sitting in a journal office pinging off review requests. Or, more likely, somebody set the AI to do it while they took off for a long weekend. #academicbankholidays

NHS staff boycott Palantir’s data platform over ethical concerns Controversial US tech group was awarded a £330mn contract in 2023 to collate hospital and patient information

“A growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work on Palantir’s health data platform over ethical concerns about the controversial US tech company”

Good

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Bach’s St John Passion Oxford Bach Soloists perform Bach’s moving work on Good Friday.

If you’re in London on Good Friday, go to this.
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Why AI health chatbots won’t make you better at diagnosing yourself – new research A chatbot might know what’s wrong with you, but when people try to use them to understand symptoms, they may end up no closer to the answer.

New from academic GP @oohgpwales.bsky.social
Why I can't be replaced by a bot

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Er stärkt sich schon mal am All-you-can-eat-Buffet. 😂

Looking Beyond “Good” and “Bad” Care: Using Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis in the Emergency Department Written by Bella van Hattum and Tracy Morison. Emergency Departments often face challenges in addressing the emotional and physical needs of patients experiencing threatened miscarriage. Although these encounters are prioritised lower clinically, the relational complexities and emotional labour in providing care under constraints are significant. This blog reports on recent research exploring these complexities using Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis.

Looking Beyond “Good” and “Bad” Care: Using Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis in the Emergency Department

Written by Bella van Hattum and Tracy Morison. Emergency Departments often face challenges in addressing the emotional and physical needs of patients experiencing threatened miscarriage.…

Exploring views on normal birth in the Nordic and Baltic regions: a cross-national qualitative study with midwives working in hospital birth settings Midwifery knowledge, education and training in practice are challenged in contemporary maternity care by the growing trend towards interventions durin…

How do midwives define and promote normal birth in increasingly medicalised maternity systems?

A study explores midwives’ perspectives, showing how their professional identity is grounded in supporting physiological birth and maintaining a supportive presence during labour.

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The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

Incredible substance here from @chrischirp.bsky.social. The 2nd wave of COVID-19 in the UK was a) devastating and b) avoidable. Take time to play the clip of Prof Kevin Fong who breaks down when describing the scale of death and its impact on ICU staff.
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Starts in a few days Arts-based research methods (Online)
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Creative Quantitative Research Methods About the Book This edited collection explores the emerging and exciting field of Creative Quantitative Research Methods, offering a platform for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share …

Call for chapters: Creative Quantitative Research Methods (co-edited with Dr Derek Ong)

Exploring creative, inclusive & imaginative approaches to working with numbers across disciplines.

Deadline: 15 May 2026
500-word proposals

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#QuantMethods #CreativeResearch

I needed that.

Evidence from South India shows how integrating a co-located Midwifery-Led Units (MLU) within a tertiary hospital can improve maternal and newborn outcomes while strengthening the role of professional midwives in the health system.

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Maternity care: why moving to a fully public model is a good thing Sara Burke, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin.

Well said Sara Burke - we should be focusing on improving standards of maternity care, for all!

The 'but you're denying women choice' argument is illogical... it's only a 'choice' for those who can 'afford' it in the first place!

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#MaternityCare #PublicGood

Wandbild Ein kleines Mädchen ergänzt das Wort PEACE auf Please

Aus der Banksy Art Gallery

Matron for Midwife-Led Care at the Royal London Hospital. Come join our team. Exciting times ahead: Midwife-led outpatient IOL, research into biodynamic interventions in labour, implementation of OptiBreech Collaborative Care across the largest Trust in the UK. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

How the Covid Disinformation Ecosystem was established Network mapping the international network's development in 2020, with a particular focus on the UK.

How the Covid Disinformation Ecosystem was established
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