Poor experiences of postnatal care linked to low staffing.Women with post-natal care in hospital trusts with more midwives experience fewer discharge delays and experience better support. Lesley Turner Prof Jane Ball (FRCN)💙 Health Sciences, UoS NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Maternity services at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) have been rated highly by local mums in the 2021 National Maternity Survey. Read more here: ow.ly/PBRf50HYnA0

Hospitals have been told to stop using caesarean section rates as perfomance targets amid fears for the safety of women and babies 🧵1/9 thetimes.co.uk/article/ec333a…

New resource for our pregnant and new mums with QR codes to useful resources and videos. Hoping it will be a useful tool in the inpatient areas RD&E Maternity julia burston 💙

1/2 So delighted to hear news of the £127million funding increase for maternity & neonatal services 2day THANK YOU!! This will be a welcome boost to clinical colleagues on the ground supporting retention & safety. Looking frwd to Weds & the launch of our final Independent Maternity Review NUH Trust report

Today our final report of the Independent Review of Maternity Services SaTH has been published. The full report can be found here: ockendenmaternityreview.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

RD&E Maternity Royal Devon NHS please encourage as many people as possible to complete this survey

Thanks public health England for not letting the NIPE smart system integrate with eprs and then being down all through my shift. Then to work again at the end of my shift so I have spent an hour and half documenting on another system after my shift. #maternity #digitalmidwives

Sharing RD&E Maternity second infographic for the final Ockenden report. Hoping to inform staff of the 15 IEA's and make our action plan to implement these with the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe care for our families and staff. Tracey Kay Donna Ockenden FRSA, Hon DLitt Hon DSci

What would be refreshing is if NHS England stopped TELLING mws how to work and asked us how we would LIKE to work! I am sure the knock on effect would be greatly improved retention, job satisfaction and benefits to service users. 🤔

Can everyone *please* check the duty rota to see if you are the Prime Minister this afternoon and make sure that you are there if you are.

I wrote a thread yesterday, and some people have said I did not go far enough in explaining why paying public sector workers inflation-matching pay rises is the right thing to do. They’re right, so let me explain the rest of it…..

This looks like a great idea to facilitate early skin to skin which then supports breastfeeding and all the known health benefits. Tracey Kay @RDESpecServices Royal Devon Theatres RD&E Maternity

Super proud of my niece who is in the starting line up for #RoyalNavy women’s rugby today in the #armynavy game. Go Lai 💪

Any Trust based Transformation Lead Midwives out there who would like to come together for support and shared learning in the South West. We are trying to pull together a community of practice. Let me know if you would like to be involved.

WHO states that breastfeeding could save the lives annually of 8,20,000 children below 5 years of age. The theme for World Breastfeeding(BF) Week is ‘Enabling BF: Making a difference for working parents’& shines a light on workplace support, paid leave & more International Confederation of Midwives

Why why why John Lewis & Partners do you do this to your wrapping paper?