I've been asked to re-post this as apparently it did not reach everyone
first time around. We have had many useful suggestions and contacts - many
thanks to all who have emailed us.
I have copied our original request below exactly as it appeared - however a
few people have asked for further information about the study:
The study was commission by NHS Education for Scotland and is titled:
Sustainable Maternity Service Provision in Remote and Rural Areas in
Scotland: The scoping of core multidisciplinary skills and exploration of
best practice in the development and maintenance of skills.
The aims (as set by NHS Education for Scotland ) are to:
* Review the range of professional skills/competencies required by the wider
Scottish Obstetric/Maternity work force.
* Scope those professional skills/competencies essential for safe,
accessible and quality maternity care in remote and rural environments:
a) with particular reference to the outcomes of the Expert Group on Acute
Maternity Services (we anticipate this being released on the 18th Dec)
b) through discussion/interview with health care professionals in the field.
* Explore how the achievement and maintenance of professional skills and
competency might be met e.g. clinical skills, behaviours, confidence and
decision-making in delivering a model of care suitable for a remote and
rural context, through discussion/interview with health care professionals
in the field.
* Identify extant innovative, multi-disciplinary approaches (e.g. impact of
tele-health) to teaching and continuing education for maternity care
professionals within a remote and rural context.
Best wishes
Vanora
RURAL MATERNITY CARE
At the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) a small team of us (three research
midwives, a health service researcher, an educationalist and a management
studies person, and a sociologist) are about to start a research project on
the organization of rural maternity care in Scotland. We are keen to hear
from people elsewhere in the world about how they have dealt with the
following four problems:
(1) distance to specialist care in an emergency;
(2) small populations in sparsely populated areas;
(3) cost of service provision per head of population or per child born;
(4) the maintenance of midwifery and medical skills.
The same way one can not have an opera house, a library, a bank and a lawyer
in every small village and hamlet, one can not have a small hospital or
midwife or doctor in parts of the country where too few births occur. How
can we offer the best maternity care in rural areas?
Any reference to reports, publications, of good practice or simply of papers
outlining the problems etc. will be very welcome.
Many thanks.
Please contact Edwin van Teijlingen or Vanora Hundley either by email:
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Or at:
Department of Public Health
University of Aberdeen
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Scotland UK
Tel.: 00-44-1224-552495
From: Adrian Smith <[log in to unmask]>
To: "'Vanora Hundley'" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: re-post?
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:22:11 -0000
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perhaps you could re-post the original message, as I'm not the only one to
have seen replies without seeing your first message?
Adrian
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On another note, I did not get your original mail to the list and only
spotted it in Sally's reply...interesting
Best of luck
Regards
Declan Devane,
Doctoral Student / Midwifery Research Assistant,
School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies,
University of Dublin Trinity College,
ooooooooooooooooooo
Adrian Smith
Faculty Team Librarian
Edward Boyle Library
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
+44 (0) 113 34 35531
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Dr Vanora Hundley
Centre for Advanced Studies in Nursing
University of Aberdeen
www.abdn.ac.uk/nursing <http://www.abdn.ac.uk/nursing>
Tel: 01224 554579
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