... al., 2016). Social change, therefore, aimed at altering social structures and perceptions about women’s value and worth hold great promise. Training Teamwork Governance structures Population health Family medicine Midwifery Obstetrics Maternal child health Behavioural social...

...Sherif Shawer; Shirley Rowbotham; Alexander Heazell; Teresa Kelly; Sarah Vause Purpose Many organisations, including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, have recommended increasing the number of hours of consultant obstetric presence in UK National Health Service maternity units...

.... The purpose of this paper is to understand RPL through anemia with special reference to folate and B12 imbalance. Design/methodology/approach Multiparous women with normal obstetric outcomes (n=135) and women with Idiopathic RPL (n=105) were recruited in the study. All women were non...

...Jenna Murray de Lopez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how obstetric violence is embodied and understood by the women who experience it, how it impacts on maternal subjectivity and what the long-term health implications may be. Design/methodology/approach This paper...

... had a stillbirth. Evidence-based practice Teamwork Clinical guidelines Clinical effectiveness Midwifery Obstetrics The timeline for the quality improvement project is shown in Table I . A multi-professional group consisting of obstetricians, midwives and perinatal pathologists from...

...Abhijit Basu; Deepa Gopinath; Naheed Anjum; Susan Hotchkies Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the prevalence of feedback following adverse clinical incident reporting among trainee doctors in obstetrics and gynaecology within the Northwestern Deanery of England. Design...

...Alexander E.P. Heazell; Nighat R. Bhatti Aims to assess the benefits of using a mnemonic to structure the care given during episodes of shoulder dystocia, an obstetric emergency that has important sequelae for the mother and infant. A retrospective case‐notes‐based study was carried out to describe...

... of the following steps: Giving time to consider the pathway of care that pregnant women follow revealed important gaps in the service. This system of an integrated pathway of care in obstetric anaesthesia has produced benefits for all of the professional groups involved in providing that care, and most...

...A.J. Corner In the UK, obstetric surgery is commonly performed with the patient awake and her partner present. Patient expectations are high. Even under high quality regional anaesthesia, non‐painful sensation may occur. This and other contentious issues must be discussed before surgery. Legal...

... as multi‐faceted strategies may be required to overcome barriers to the effective implementation of clinical guidelines. Clinical guidelines Clinical governance Obstetrics Gynaecology There is a widely acknowledged gap between the evidence base and the delivery of health care (Haines...