We’re extremely pleased to share that our maternity services at Royal Berkshire Hospital have continued to be rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following a recent inspection in November 2023.
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Doctoral viva passed! PhDMidwives #PhDone

What an achievement Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Services are celebrating today! Care Quality Commission rating the service as good overall & good in safe & well led. A huge credit to the whole team & importantly great for our women, families & babies. Christine Steve McManus 💙 NHS South East

Please forward this PhD to anyone who might be interested in a PhD in health research.

“..2.1% of all publicly funded medical research is into women’s reproductive health and childbirth. There is five times more research conducted on erectile dysfunction, which affects 19% of men, than on premenstrual syndrome, which affects 90% of women” archive.ph/2024.01.27-022…

Nothing so anticlimactic as an electronic submission 🤣 Only 9 years, a husband, a consultant midwife post and 2 children down the line (!) but this doctoral thesis has been delivered 🎉 PhDMidwives

I thought the final days before submitting my thesis would be endless re-reading and single minded focus on every minutiae, to ensure that 7 years work is as near to perfect as possible. Reader, it is not. PhDMidwives

A hard look at how 'improvement' is done in maternity services is much needed bmj.com/content/383/bm…

To reduce some of the challenges with travel around the city, we at OUH have started a trial of an electric bike with the Community Midwifery team in Florence Park. #goinggreen #environment #travelOxford

Are you doing these things- midwives, nurses, obstetricians, maternity support workers, anaesthetists ( actually all who walk in the door of a maternity unit)

Great discussion around definitions of delay and a wide variety of answers - capacity vs demand - I question how many are communicating these delays clearly to the service user? #bethechange #BIC23

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommending the inclusion of the chickenpox vaccine in the UK's childhood immunisation schedule is a significant step for public health. This decision aligns the UK with many other countries that have already integrated…

According to the CQC, two thirds of maternity services in England DO NOT meet required safety standards. Read this short Board report to see what the NHS England team is saying they are doing. Is it enough?
england.nhs.uk/long-read/upda…

Ever wonder if #breastmilk might contain biomarkers to diagnose maternal health conditions before they are apparent by symptoms or traditional screening tests?

Here, a test for tumor DNA in milk had 71% sensitivity & 100% specificity for #breastcancer .

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Pregnant women 🤰🏽 are systematically excluded from clinical trials for therapeutics & vaccines. This is a profound & overlooked manifestation of gender bias in health research.

Our AIM-Gender project in partnership with Concept Foundation seeks to change this: bit.ly/aimgend

Many of the findings of the MBRRACE UK maternal mortality report 2023 emphasise the need for equitable care for pregnant, recently pregnant and breastfeeding women buff.ly/2HR30eT

“Treat pregnant, recently pregnant and breastfeeding women the same as a non pregnant person, unless there is a very clear reason not to” MBRRACE UK
I have been repeating this phrase every single time I deliver a Mummy's Star session for years. It’s vital!!

Out today! The MBRRACE UK report on deaths in pregnancy 2019 - 2021…

👉🏻 Of 241 deaths, 33 caused by COVID-19

👉🏻 None of these were fully vaccinated (one partially vaccinated) even though 27 of them were eligible

👉🏻 No deaths caused by vaccination

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Today we are launching our new 24 hr Maternity Assessment Unit (MAU)

If you have any pregnancy related concerns please contact our maternity triage line 0118 322 7304 - they will make a telephone assessment and then if needed will be able to book you an appointment with our MAU

Our values feed into everything we do and it's by being compassionate, aspirational, resourceful and excellent that we can deliver outstanding care for our community.
Have a look at what we have accomplished over the past year.
Watch the full film 👉 youtu.be/CsDTqib6UKw