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Weekly conversations with leading midwifery experts - hosted by the Maternity and Midwifery Forum.
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249 episodes
since April 5, 2020
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Using research and evidence has become an important part of the midwife’s toolbox and, for some midwives, this moves beyond, to querying aspects of their practice, learning or management and towards a journey towards engaging in research themselves.
This week, we are looking at two stages of res…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Series 20 - Episode 2: Birth, Safety and Beyond: Understanding Women’s Experiences
At a time when maternity services across England are facing intense scrutiny, what does it mean to put women and families genuinely at the centre of maternity care?
The National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation,…
Series 20 - Episode 1: The Midwifery Student Jobs Crisis
How has it come about that there are so few jobs for student midwives? The NHS has known they were in the pipeline, on student placement, in maternity units.
The NHS has a shortage of midwives; maternity units are marked "need improvem…
For as long as we can remember, student midwives have learned about the female pelvis, and the fetal skull, its dimensions and fit together, and the mechanism of labour. But do we always understand the complexities of that mechanism, and the influence of factors like exercise, and movement may have…
One of the key outcomes that we as midwives within the maternity care team need to address is that of pre-term labour and birth – when a baby is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, working towards improving perinatal outcomes.
We are joined this week by Dede Thorpe, Preterm Specialist Midwife at Ea…
Series 19 - Episode 9: Where next for Midwifery? Ockenden & Amos round up
Maternity & Midwifery are the subject two significant reports which have huge implications for the choices for women and the shape of the profession.
Students can’t get jobs, experienced midwives are retiring and l…
Live from the Bradford Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2026
Keynote address: The maternity care crisis and lessons learned
Professor Andrew Weeks, Professor of International Maternal Healthcare, University of Liverpool
From strategy to practice: what the women’s health strategy means for mi…
Maternity and Midwifery Hour
Series 19 - Episode 8: " No pregnant woman sent home" is this a demand to build trust with women that they will be listened to or does it go too far?
The "No Pregnant Woman Sent Home" campaign has sparked significant debate across maternity services, professional communities,…
Series 19 - Episode 7: Midwifery research: priorities, pathways and midwifery involvement
At the heart of this week’s hour is the importance of research that informs midwifery practice and the care of women, babies and families, together with the role of midwives in conducting and advancing that r…
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