Morning dear colleagues,
Just wanted to update anyone who was not aware, the council of deans of Health have agreed that anyone working in a university context who are midwives/nurses can do so in university time.
I think that what you do would that time will be between you and your associated Maternity unit, but I know they will be grateful for help -
I hope we can keep talking and contributing ideas - as to what would work best as this problem is not going to go away any time soon, vulnerability will be on the increase and we are well placed to help.
Stay well
Best wishes
Trixie
Professor Trixie McAree
Professor of Midwifery and Maternal Health
Birmingham City University/Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS FoundationTrust
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From: Soo Downe <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 27 March 2020 08:31
To: Trixie McAree <[log in to unmask]>; A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research. <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Solutions?
I agree Trixie - but also, as academics who are actually also still working full time, to maybe offer support for example through video links to women in pregnancy/postnatal who have queries (being available when not scheduled for academic meetings/students support and etc, or in our off-duty time), or those in early labour at home, so that labour ward midwives can concentrate on women who are in the hospitals, and to help women to stay at home as long as they can?
Or for those of us who have notified our intention to practice, but who havent been on the wards for a while, to offer to complete notes/do other tasks that take up midwives time/require midwifery knowledge but that can be done by others (though, of course, midwives might also need the break that writing up notes can afford them, if they are working flat out face to face with women).
Or maybe even acting as transport support for women moving from home to hospital in labour, though Im not sure about the insurance and etc of this - if taxi services are being used as I think is being considered in some places due to ambulance shortages, maybe there could be a pool of academic/recently retired/midwives on the register but not currently in employment who could accompany the woman in the taxi to give her support/be in a position to give a rapid assessment of her condition on arrival at the labour ward? Just so community support can enable women to stay at home as much as possible.
Just some thoughts, anyway...
All the best
Soo
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Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 8:20 AM
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Subject: RE: Situation in New Zealand - positive!
We need to be very calm and logical in this period, remembering this is a marathon not a sprint. One size will not fit all. In every case we need to humanise birth, keeping individual needs central. Clearly the Chinese model has so over medicalised birth that they have lost sight of some of the important therapeutic elements of human interaction as well as cost/benefit of intervention for many cases.
The biggest fear in my mind is that actually there won't be sufficient midwives to provide the care making any argument about place of birth redundant. In B'Ham we are keeping our HBT and C of C teams running as long as possible however as midwives are self-isolating this will become more difficult. We need to monitor using our academic skills but where possible consider also working clinically (if we don't already do so) - maintaining moral, influencing guidelines supporting decision making.
Best wishes
Trixie
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