Welsh NHS strikes: Most health unions suspend industrial action
Nurses, ambulance staff, midwives and physios are weighing up an extra 3% pay offer by ministers. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Welsh NHS strikes: Nurses, ambulance staff, midwives and physios halt action
Nurses, ambulance staff, midwives and physios will consider an extra 3% pay offer by ministers. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
These New Pediatric Development Clinics in Rwanda Save Lives
By D éogratias Rwangabo Nkurunziza,
Communication Officer ; Richard Kalisa,
Newborn and child health advisor
A PDC nurse examines baby Sebastien at Ruhengeri Referral Hospital. Photo by Deogratias Rwangabo Nkurunziza for IntraHealth International.January 31, 2023The birth of a baby is often a joyous, momentous occasion. For Izabayo Marcel, however, August 2021 was a heartbreaking month. His wife died while giving birth to their baby, Sebastien Duhirwe, and Sebastien suffered from birth asphyxia, which left him fighting for his life.The doctors and nurses at the Ruhengeri Referral Hospital acted quickly—and t...
Source: IntraHealth International - January 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health Health workforce development Midwives Nurses Source Type: news
Tanzania: Dr Mwinyi Appoints New Nursing, Midwifery Director
[Daily News] Zanzibar President, Hussein Ali Mwinyi has appointed Mwanaisha Juma Fakih as the director of the Nursing and Midwifery department under the Isles' Health Ministry. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Woman face permanent scarring and hair loss by following TikTok forehead lowering surgery craze
Polish midwife Joanna Gawor, 29, pictured, had hairline lowering surgery to reduce the size of her forehead in an effort to boost her self confidence. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Who is Lindsay Clancy? Midwife accused of strangling two children
A Massachusetts mother was charged with two counts of homicide and three counts of strangulation after allegedly strangling her two young children and attempting to kill her baby before jumping from her house on Tuesday. The woman, 32-year-old Lindsay Clancy of Plymouth, survived the…#massachusetts #lindsayclancy #plymouth #boston #plymouthcounty #timcruz #duxbury #wbztviteam #duxburypolice #troopers (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New money for NHS pay from Treasury could end dispute, says UNISON
The chancellor can halt escalating strike action and begin solving the staffing emergency currently causing the NHS such harm if he comes up with new money to pay health workers fairly, says UNISON today (Monday).
But if Jeremy Hunt continues to resist appeals to release extra cash and kickstart talks with unions to end the strikes, the NHS dispute could run for many months, says the union.
This warning comes as up to 15,000 UNISON ambulance workers walk out later today for the third time in five weeks over pay and staffing, says UNISON. They’ll be joined by as many as 5,000 of their NHS colleagues at two...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 23, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release nhs pay Source Type: news
Ghana: Health Minister Inaugurate Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives Board
[GhanaToday] The Minister for Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has inaugurated a 12-Member Board of the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives on Thursday in Accra, to actively promote health care delivery in Ghana and beyond. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Barriers and facilitators to infection prevention and control guidelines adherence: an integrative review
Conclusions: Education for midwives is crucial to improve adherence to infection prevention and control guidance. However, education from a behaviour change standpoint has been shown to be most effective and this should be incorporated into training programmes. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Cochrane review on family-centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well-being by primary healthcare services
Family-centred care is a way of providing care that focuses on the needs of children while providing planned care around the whole family unit. Anew Cochrane review published recently found there was a small improvement in the overall health and well-being of Indigenous children and their families when they participated in family-centred care programmes at a primary healthcare service.‘Family centred-care is not new,’ says lead author Dr Natalie Strobel, Senior Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University’s Centre for Improving Health Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Families. ‘Aborigina...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - January 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Fighting Maternal Mortality Among Black Women: ‘I Don’t Want to Die’
A St. Louis doula program, part of a nonprofit that received funding in the $1.7 trillion federal budget bill, looks for solutions in a benefit largely associated with affluent white women. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erica L. Green Tags: Black People Discrimination Pregnancy and Childbirth Babies and Infants United States Politics and Government Maternal Mortality Midwives and Doulas American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Caesarean Section Preeclampsia Source Type: news
Global health care experiences of female survivors who experienced trafficking: a meta-ethnography - Vo T, Purkayastha B.
INTRODUCTION: Most nurses and midwives do not feel adequately prepared to respond to the complex trauma and social and cultural needs of female clients who have experienced trafficking. There are data to support a lack of knowledge among health care provid... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Scrap £100,000 NHS inclusion course on chestfeeding, say midwives
The Maternity Gender Inclusion Programme is to be rolled out nationwide with a focus on improving maternity care for pregnant transgender patients. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Staffing issues force reduction in midwifery services in Fort Smith, N.W.T.
Expectant parents that would have otherwise given birth in the South Slave community are now being sent to Yellowknife. Primary care appointments and emergency-only services remain in place. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - January 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/North Source Type: news
Ongoing disputes make it impossible to submit evidence to NHS pay review body, say health unions
Health unions won’t be submitting joint evidence to the NHS pay review body for the next wage round while the current industrial disputes remain unresolved, it has been announced today (Wednesday).
Instead, the 14 unions – representing more than one million ambulance staff, nurses, porters, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and other NHS workers in England – have called for direct pay talks with ministers.
Unions believe the lengthy pay review body process is not able to deliver what is needed right now. That’s a deal that resolves the current pay and staffing dispute and puts in place a settlement needed to ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - January 11, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release nhs pay Sara Gorton Source Type: news