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Sidone Chilufya makes some interesting points in her article suggesting caseload midwifery as a solution to overloaded maternity services (career development June 16). But I question her choice of statistics. [...]

I was dismayed by David Cameron's speech at the RCN congress in Harrogate (news May 13), even more so when he received a standing ovation. His comments regarding dumbing down [...]

Law and Professional Issues in Midwifery **** This is the first book to use the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards and essential skills clusters for pre-registration midwifery education. It [...]

After reading Cathy Warwick's article (reflections February 16), I remain perplexed about how the new GP consortia and maternity services can be combined to deliver a workable solution. There is [...]

Sands, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity, has a dynamic website with a powerful message--17 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth every day in the UK. The site [...]

The ethos of the Association of Radical Midwives (ARM) is to improve NHS maternity services. The group formed in the 1970s and used the initials ARM as a symbolic protest [...]

Baroness Nicholson may well be right about the labour-intensive nature of the family nurse partnership scheme (news December 9), bur there are no quick fixes to support families with health [...]

I was saddened to read the story, 'Children's charities still awaiting 30 million £ government injection' (news April 8). I worked for Quidenham Children's Hospice, part of East Anglia's Children's [...]

The Infertility Network UK website is highly emotive, whatever your personal circumstances. I have two children and it made me reflective The site encourages users to become members. There are [...]

MIDIRS is one of the best midwifery resources, but there have recently been problems accessing its website without a subscription. I am delighted to see this new and improved site, [...]

***** Any professional who works with children and administers or prescribes drugs will need to refer regularly to this text. It provides information for medicine usage from neonates to adolescents, [...]

UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, strives to ensure the survival, development and protection of children's rights, guided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The organisation's [...]

Shadows of the Workhouse **** This three-part story looks back to life in the Docklands area of east London in the 1950s and the work of the Nonnatus House nuns [...]

YouTube is a free video sharing website where users upload, view and share video clips. There are many videos related to nursing and midwifery for practitioners to learn new skills [...]

As a new lecturer, I should develop my academic writing skills, but I agree with the article's assertion that academic language can often be obscure or convoluted. The use of [...]

Crises in Childbirth--Why Mothers Survive *** The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health, or CEMACH as it is widely known, has published triennial reports for the past 55 years [...]

Science in Nursing and Health Care--Second edition **** Mark Foss and Tony Farine teach at the University of Nottingham's school of nursing, having worked for many years as nurses in [...]

**** The Living End--The Future of Death, Aging and Immortality Guy Brown's book on the seismic shifts of death and dying, and mortality and immortality, had me transfixed. It mixes [...]

Despite being the website of an American magazine, Midwifery Today offers many useful resources for the UK midwife, and boasts a range of international contributors. The website features a range [...]

Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) aims to improve the health of mothers, babies and children nationwide. Every hospital in the UK contributes to the findings, with representation [...]