Ignoring women’s experience led to the NHS’s biggest maternity scandal

Government is ignoring the value of experience.

I feel fortunate to work for a community trust that values its staff and actively promotes their development. However, I feel very undervalued by the present government for the 20 years' hard work, dedication and experience I have put into my career.

Midwife-led maternity care in Ireland – a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND Midwife-led maternity care is shown to be safe for women with low-risk during pregnancy. In Ireland, two midwife-led units (MLUs) were introduced in 2004 when a randomised controlled trial (the MidU study) was performed to compare MLU care with consultant-led care (CLU). Following study completion the two MLUs have remained as a maternity care option in Ireland. The aim of this study...

The stillbirth ‘scandal’

The scope of stillbirth has been overlooked by many, few would estimate that in high income countries that, late stillbirths (pregnancies 28 weeks or later) occurs twice as often as death due to HIV/ AIDS; ten times more common than deaths due to Hepatitis B; twice a common as deaths due to congenital anomalies; twice as common as deaths due to preterm complications, and ten times more common t...

The great medicines scandal.

Scandal Potential How political context and news congestion affect the president’s vulnerability to media scandal

Despite its importance in contemporary American politics, presidential scandal is poorly understood within political science. Scholars typically interpret scandals as resulting from the disclosure of official misbehavior, but the likelihood and intensity of media scandals is also influenced by the political and news context. In this article, I provide a theoretical argument for two independent ...