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With all the mental and physical changes that occur during pregnancy, it’s no wonder why many pregnant people give up the dumbbells for a while. But to help keep them active, Nike is launching the ...

Some of my earliest memories are of my mother telling me my birth story. I was born with the assistance of a midwife at Booth Maternity Center on City Line Avenue. My mother always made it sound ...

Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has called on his successor Matt Hancock to reinstate the NHS maternity safety training fund in response to scandals at hospitals in East Kent and Shrewsbury. In a ...

Midwives, doctors, nurses and paramedics either do not know about official guidelines or are ignoring them when faced with women experiencing a difficult labour. And the NHS is now facing claims of ...

A new maternity leadership training programme has been launched following a review into baby deaths. A report from the inquiry into deaths and allegations of poor care at Shrewsbury and Telford ...

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IN A boost for mums-to-be along the Mid North Coast, specialist maternity services are expect to proliferate in the years ahead. The Federal Government has given the go-ahead for country GPs to apply ...

The Government has announced it is rolling out the programme later this year and it will train staff across 126 trusts and 44 local maternity systems. It aims to equip maternity leaders with the ...

The government said the £500,000 programme would train 700 NHS maternity and neonatal leaders in England Hundreds of senior NHS maternity and neonatal staff across England are to get "leadership ...