NHS rolls out specialist medical care centres for women during pregnancy
As part of the NHS commitment to halve the maternal mortality rate by 2025, 17 new centres of excellence bringing together expert physicians, obstetricians, midwives, nurses and other clinicians will be available to help pregnant women with serious medical conditions. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Strike averted as nurses and midwives accept pay offer
Members of nursing and midwifery unions vote to accept the Scottish government's 6.5% pay deal. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ghana: 306 Students Matriculate At Zuarungu Nursing and Midwifery Training School
[Ghanaian Times] Zuarungu -- The Principal of the Zuarungu Nursing and Midwifery Training College (ZNMTC), Mr Michael Yidana Mantamia, has cautioned students to be focused in their academic work and explore all opportunities to develop themselves socially and culturally. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 17, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan ’s most remote villages
NIMROZ, Afghanistan– “Wake up! We have a delivery!” Suhila Rasuli whispered urgently the phone so as not to wake up the rest of her family so early in the morning. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - March 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
UNISON to recommend acceptance of NHS pay offer
Commenting on the 2022/23 and 2023/24 pay offer to NHS staff in England, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said:
“It’s a shame it took so long to get here. Health workers had to take many days of strike action, and thousands more had to threaten to join them, to get their unions into the room and proper talks underway.
“But following days of intensive talks between the government, unions and employers, there’s now an offer on the table for NHS staff.
“If accepted, the offer would boost pay significantly this year and mean a wage increase next year that’s more than the governmen...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - March 16, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release nhs pay Sara Gorton Source Type: news
U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Soared 40% During COVID-19 Pandemic
The U.S. maternal mortality rate, already far higher than peer countries, soared during the pandemic.
More than 1,200 women in the U.S. died of complications arising from pregnancy or childbirth in 2021, a 40% jump from 2020, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That amounts to 32.9 deaths for every 100,000 live births.
The spread of COVID-19 was partly responsible for the grim statistic, with about a quarter of 2020 and 2021 deaths attributed to the virus, according to an October report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. However, the new data suggest litt...
Source: TIME: Health - March 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kelsey Butler/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire healthscienceclimate medicine Source Type: news
U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Soared 40% During the Pandemic
The U.S. maternal mortality rate, already far higher than peer countries, soared during the pandemic.
More than 1,200 women in the U.S. died of complications arising from pregnancy or childbirth in 2021, a 40% jump from 2020, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That amounts to 32.9 deaths for every 100,000 live births.
The spread of COVID-19 was partly responsible for the grim statistic, with about a quarter of 2020 and 2021 deaths attributed to the virus, according to an October report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. However, the new data suggest litt...
Source: TIME: Health - March 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kelsey Butler/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire healthscienceclimate medicine Source Type: news
NHSE clinical chief leaves for overseas role
NHS England’s chief midwifery officer – who has been central to the response to recent maternity care controversies – is to leave her role and join an international advocacy group, it has announced. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 16, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
National preceptorship framework for midwifery
The framework is intended for midwives and can be used as a core set of standards where multidisciplinary preceptorship programmes are in place. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - March 15, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Collaborative support for child abuse prevention: perspectives of public health nurses and midwives regarding pregnant and postpartum women of concern - Yokomizo A, Nagae H, Athurupana R, Nakatsuka M.
Child abuse is a globally prevalent problem, and its numbers have continuously increased in Japan over the past 30 years. Prevention of child abuse depends on the support available to pregnant and postpartum women from the time of pregnancy. Public health ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
March JHSON Virtual Nursing Grand Rounds
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Source: Johns Hopkins University and Health Systems Archive - March 8, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Nurses should be able to approve abortions, suggests UK study
Nurses and midwives should be able to approve abortions, a UK study has concluded, in what would be the one of the biggest changes to abortion legislation since 1967. The findings of the Shaping Abortion for Change (SACHA) report, which was led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has recommended significant changes... Read moreThe post Nurses should be able to approve abortions, suggests UK study appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - March 8, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Wiliam Hunter Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
Midwife-Led Care Linked to Positive Outcomes Across Medical Risk Levels Midwife-Led Care Linked to Positive Outcomes Across Medical Risk Levels
Midwife Care Safe for Moderate- and High-Risk PregnanciesMedscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
Why Do 800 Mothers a Day – 1 Every 2 Minutes – Die from Preventable Causes?
Nearly every maternal death is preventable, and the clinical expertise and technology necessary to avert these losses have existed for decades. Credit: Patrick Burnett/IPSBy Baher KamalMADRID, Mar 7 2023 (IPS) The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health care and, in many cases, even a total lack of maternity services, which threaten to further raise the number of these tragic preventable deaths one million or more a year by 2030.
Severe bleeding, high blood pressure, pregnancy-related infections, complications from unsafe abortion, and underlying conditions that can be aggravated by pregnancy (such a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Gender Global Headlines Health Inequality Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations International Women's Day 2023 Source Type: news
Care Quality Commission staff vote to strike over pay, says UNISON
Staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have voted to take strike action over pay, says their union UNISON today (Tuesday).
More than 700 workers were balloted by UNISON, including those in the organisation’s health and social care teams and call centres, along with clerical staff and data analysts.
CQC staff regulate health and social care bodies across England including hospitals, care homes, GP practices and dental surgeries ensuring the safe delivery of services.
Of those who took part in the UNISON vote, 73% opted to strike and 92% for action short of a strike. This means, for example, that staff...
Source: UNISON Health care news - March 7, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release CQC Source Type: news
