Such an inspiring day.

In tough times midwives need smart, compassionate advocates. Melissa Davis is the smartest of smart and the kindest of kind. Gets my vote all day long. Royal College of Midwives 💙 will be better with Melissa on the board.

Grow, retain, support…grow, retain, support. Excellence in action at Milton Keynes Maternity.

So proud. X

TwiX at its finest. I’m here mostly for more of this.

I bet all of us who work in the NHS can relate to this. Xx

Midwives, Student Midwives and Maternity Support Workers please could you complete then share this link to a research survey on postnatal care and hypertension? University of Oxford Primary Health Care Department need our views to inform this vital research. oxford.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/midwife-survey…

Are you interested in providing midwifery continuity of care across pregnancy, birth & the postnatal period? Positions available for band 6 #Midwives to work in a team in the south of Oxford. Any questions – get in touch. tinyurl.com/45u49zvk OUH OUH Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Careers

On Christmas Day, NHS staff will dispatch around 20,000 ambulances, serve 100,000 Christmas dinners in hospitals, and deliver 1,500 babies, as they do every year. Thank you to the incredible NHS staff working really hard over the Christmas and New Year period.

Obstetric cardiac arrest Let’s look at the big picture…. So among 355,000 obstetric anaesthetic interventions in a year in UK (delivered to approximately 50% of all births & at all times of day and night almost exclusively in the NHS) Incidence of obstetric cardiac arrest

Work from home in an admin job so have very little human interaction. I grow plants on my desk that i have given names & talk to. Irene just won plant of the week for the most growth, which is fantastic as she's never been the same since we lost Bertie to root rot.

This thread is lovely.

Be still my beating heart……

If I worked in govt esp in health dept, I would be preparing plans for how best to respond to more avian flu cases in humans including GP & hospital guidance, vaccine & antiviral testing & stock-piling & containment plans. We are watching real-time step changes in the virus.