Wendy Proctore will presents a seminar on ‘Reshaping Birth: The Evidence and Practice of Facilitating Birth with the Peanut Ball’. This will take place on Thursday 20th Feburary 2025 at 11am via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite. Wendy Proctor Wendy Proctor, is a registered midwife based in Bristol, is a passionate advocate for enhancing…
Roisin Breen will presents a seminar on ‘Promoting Sustainability in Midwifery Practice’. This will take place on Thursday 3rd October 2024 at 11am via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite. Roisin Breen Roisin is an expert in sustainable healthcare practices. Roisin has been at the forefront of this field since 2021, when she began working…
Laura Orr, Ursula Nagle and Janet Best will present a seminar on ‘‘The Lived Experience, the Evidence and Interventions to Support Women’s Perinatal Mental Health’. This will take place on Tuesday 18th June 2024 at 11am via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite. Laura Orr Laura is married to Austin and is a first-time mum…
At the All-Ireland Midwifery Network we are keen to ensure we are supportive of research ongoing across Northern Ireland and Ireland and as such we are delighted to support researchers from Queen’s University Belfast share their ‘Proud to be’ survey with our network members. The survey forms the first phase of the research which seeks…
Dr Shawn Walker will present a seminar on ‘How midwives can provide evidence-based care for vaginal breech birth’ on Thursday 18th April at 11am. This will take place on Thursday 18th April at 11am via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite. Shawn Walker, RM, PhD is clinical academic consultant midwife, based at King’s College London. She has researched…
Terersa McCreery (National Maternity Hospital Dublin) and Paula Murray (Southern HSCT) will present a seminar on ‘Learnings & Evidence from Providing Home Birth Services in Northern Ireland and Ireland’ on Wednesday 6th Dec at 11am. This will take place on Wednesday 6th Dec at 10am via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite.
Dr Anna Byrom will present a seminar on ‘Sustaining Midwifery: Meaningful Midwifery Moments’ on Thursday 2nd March at 10am. This will take place on Thursday 2nd March at 10am via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite.
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Katherine Robinson and Paula Barry will present a seminar on ‘The Evidence and Practice of Facilitating Water Birth’ on Thursday 13th October at 2pm. This will take place on Thursday 13th October at 2pm via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite. Katherine Robinson Katherine Robinson started nursing in 1986 and qualified as a midwife in 1994…
A selection of videos that were developed and released to show the different roles midwives have in hospitals and communities across Ireland. These were presented at The National Midwifery Conference in May, on International Day of the Midwife 2022. Thank you to the National Women and Infants Health Programme and the Office of the Nursing…
We celebrated International Day of the Midwife 2022 by presenting at the National Midwifery Conference in Dublin. We were delighted to discuss ‘Building a Community of Practice’ alongside a variety of speakers. This included a fantastic keynote address from Prof. Fran McConville, Midwifery Advisor WHO. It was also a wonderful opportunity to meet some of…
Dr. Elizabeth Newnham, Senior lecturer and Program Convenor Midwifery at the University of Newcastle, Australia will give an online Seminar on ‘Evidence based practice to support physiological labour; and birth’. This will take place during our Network Meeting on Wednesday 13th April which begins at 10am via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite. Dr. Elizabeth Newnham is a senior lecturer…
Dr Lucia Rocca-Ihenacho, the CEO and co-founder of the Midwifery Unit Network will give an online seminar on ‘The Importance of Developing an All-Ireland Midwifery Network/Community of Practice’. This will take place during our Inaugural Network Meeting on Thursday 3rd February which begins at 3pm via Microsoft Teams. The seminar itself will be between 3:15…
The inaugural Network Meeting will take place on Tuesday 3rd February at 3:00 – 4:30pm. It will be online via MS Teams. This first meeting will be a great opportunity to meet other members and to begin the process of leading and informing your own network. We look forward to seeing you there! Become a…
The inaugural Steering Group Meeting took place on Tuesday 5th October, with members logging in from all over Ireland. This included representatives from: National Women’s and Infant’s Health Programme, HSE (IRE) Chief Nursing Office Department of Health, (NI) Chief Nursing Office, Department of Health (IRE) Office of Nursing and Midwifery Services Director (ONMSD) (IRE) Birthwise…