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Kindness matters - Midwives: survive, thrive and transform
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Organiser Rae Trotter shares her past experience and recent research on mental health in the maternity workforce and how, in the current climate, it is even more important to shed light on the topic.
What is leadership, anyway? And what does it mean to you?
Recently I’ve been considering the challenge of defining leadership. I’m not alone in this: it’s been said that there are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are leaders!
What about maternity staff on the NHS PRB report?
You probably saw the announcement on Tuesday by the Chancellor of public sector pay increases. This covered doctors, police, teachers and others. You might have thought what about midwives and MSWs? The announcement only covered groups covered ...
A reduction in premature births during COVID-19
A remarkable reduction in premature birth has been found in two studies. Although neither have yet been published in peer reviewed journals, the findings from Ireland and Denmark are receiving plenty of interest. The findings of both studies ...
Encounters with the Pig of Happiness – how I came to understand self-leadership
I came across Edward Monkton’s Pig of Happiness animation when I was preparing to deliver my first ever seminar on leadership and its application within midwifery. I was acutely aware that three hours of leadership theory was just not going ...
Exploring leadership through the language of colour: introducing Insights Discovery
I was introduced to Insights Discovery, a psychometric profiling tool, when I was working as a lecturer in leadership and management at Newcastle Business School. Now, I should point out that I’m generally somewhat sceptical about such tools, ...Time to deliver a decent pay rise: what we are doing and how to help
Midwives, maternity support workers (MSWs) and everyone else working in the NHS are long overdue a decent pay rise. Not only have you put in phenomenal effort in recent months to fight the greatest health crisis to hit Britain and the world in ...
What we can learn from the MBRRACE rapid report
The MBRRACE-UK collaboration’s ‘Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care rapid review: Learning from SARS-CoV-2-related and associated maternal deaths in the UK was recently published. The report aims to address the immediate concerns ...
Pension scheme consultation
The Government last week launched a consultation document that runs until October. They want to know what scheme members feel about when this choice is to be offered – either immediately after 1 April 2022 or when they retire.