In the current economic climate when families are struggling with everything from employment to food it is incredibly heart warming to know that a dedicated band of midwives are coming to the end of the beginning of their long standing battle to improve the UK maternity services. Campaigning for normal birth The Independent Midwifery Association (IMA) has ...
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NHS modernisation listening exercise
The Department of Health (DH) has instigated a consultation exercise to find out what people think about their proposed NHS reforms. An online form provided the basis for feedback and Maternal Link took the opportunity to share 7 years of experience talking to everyone from Trust managers to individual midwives around the UK, summarised under ...
World War 1 Babies
Impact of World War I On Radio 4’s More or Less programme, aired on the 10th September they discussed the impact on the global population of the first world war. Staggering numbers in relation to the death toll included the fact that an estimated 9 million soldiers and 6 million civilians were killed. The majority of ...