This course is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of healthcare professionals in supporting women during labour and birth. This course focuses on the principles of active birth, emphasising the importance of promoting freedom of movement and empowering women to actively participate in their birthing experience. The course covers evidence-based practices, communication techniques, and strategies for assisting women in adopting various positions. Last updated 2023.

This advanced course 'Compassionate maternity care' is designed to develop understanding, research knowledge and skills on this topic. Birth professionals will be able to utilise this knowledge when providing care to women and birthing people during the perinatal period. The module focuses on the principles of compassionate maternity care and the vital role it plays in safe, high quality midwifery care. The module explores the definition and concepts of compassionate midwifery care, and reviews the global context and research evidence that can be applied to practice. You will be encouraged to think and reflect on your own practice and how this applies to the care you provide, and your own wellbeing.

Welcome to the Anatomy and Physiology of the Placenta quiz. The placenta, a remarkable and intricate organ, plays a vital role during pregnancy, facilitating the exchange of nutrients, gases, and waste products between the mother and the developing fetus. This quiz will test your knowledge of the structure, function, and significance of the placenta in the context of pregnancy. From its development to its hormonal influence, from gas exchange to immune protection, the placenta's role is multifaceted and fascinating. Whether you're a student, healthcare professional, or recapping your knowledge as a midwife this quiz will challenge and expand your understanding of the placenta's crucial role in supporting fetal development.

Welcome to this course, designed for midwives who have been educated outside of the UK and either wish to come and work in the UK or are already working here in the UK. Within this course, we have created a number of areas to support your English language development and support you to prepare for the OET or IELTS test to meet the NMC registration.

Updated in 2024

Welcome to this course, designed for midwives who have been educated outside of the UK and either wish to come and work in the UK or are already working here in the UK. Within this course, we have created a number of areas to support your English language development and support you with tools for effective communication for safe and quality midwifery care

Updated 2024

This mini course will help you to understand what compassion is and the vital role it plays in high quality maternity care. You will be introduced to some definitions and theories of compassion. You will learn about the process of compassion and think about how this applies to maternity care. Most importantly, you will be encouraged to think about how this relates to your own practice and reflect on how compassion is key to the care you provide, the people you work with and yourself. Last updated 2023. 

Welcome to the Critiquing the Evidence around labour, birth and the postnatal period quiz, which has been designed to assess and consolidate your knowledge on .....

As human beings, our interactions with each other encompasses physical, mental, spiritual and emotional connections that varies depending on the nature of that interaction. In midwifery, much of our work is on the emotional level, whether is managing our own emotions in clinical situations or through supporting women, people and their partners through their own changing emotions. However, this ‘emotion work’ is an undervalued and often hidden aspect of our work, with much more attention given to the physical acts of ‘doing’ clinical tasks. This study sheet uses a Maternity Voices reflection from The Practising Midwife to shine a light on the value of positive ‘emotion work’ that makes an extraordinary difference for women’s experiences of care and their transition to motherhood.

This course has been set up as a guide to help you navigate the carefully designed webinar series resources including programme handbook, series eBook, Zoom links to the live webinar sessions, provide access to all webinar recordings, links to additional wider reading and resources, final knowledge check and certification.

Welcome to this advanced course, designed for midwives, midwifery leaders, maternity workers and those who are developing their understanding about the recommendations noted within the World Health Organisation guidance. Depending on your country and location, these recommendations may be fully implemented or you may find that there are areas of care that could benefit from implementing these recommendations. These guidelines have been developed to reduce maternal and newborn mortality, morbidity and improve care for women and their families to create a positive intrapartum and postnatal experience. 

Last updated 2024

In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, organisational culture stands as a cornerstone that profoundly influences the delivery of care, experiences of women and families, and the well-being of healthcare professionals. With its complex nature, healthcare organisations encompasses many differing cultures and norms, varied by global region and context. This mini course focuses on the definition of organisational culture, explains the impact culture has on health and maternity care and most importantly offers ways in which midwives and healthcare practitioners can take action to improve organisational culture. New Course 2023. 

Listening to women’s voices, stories and experiences are vitally important as midwives. It offers a unique opportunity to glean what works well and what does not work well. This study sheet draws upon a reflective piece written by a doula as she considers the support she provides to families, but crucially she draws upon her own experience of caesarean birth. She found that consenting to a caesarean birth meant she was inadvertently consenting to procedures she was not fully aware of. Lots of key information was omitted during the discussions; which for maternity professionals, the details of a caesarean birth are ‘everyday knowledge’, implicit, and often take for granted. Here, we are challenged to reconsider how we communicate information so that informed consent is truly informed.

Listening to the fetal heart is an essential clinical skill that supports understanding fetal wellbeing. Listening can be carried out with a Pinard or a Doppler, both of which require different skills to use properly. Moreover, beyond counting a heart rate, a midwife needs to contextualise the heart tones in relation to the mother-baby context for what might be normal in one context may warrant emergency care in another context.  Therefore, midwives need to gather several sources of knowledge to synthesise to make interpretations that can impact mothers and baby’s outcomes. This study sheet assumes the reader has some knowledge and clinical experience of auscultating fetal hearts to offer some practice tips to developing this skill.

Welcome to the 'Labour and birth quiz 1' which has been designed to assess and consolidate your knowledge on critical aspects of childbirth. This quiz will explore several interlinking key areas, including fetal presentation, the pivotal role of hormones in the birthing process, and the intricate mechanism of labour.