Reports of drug-resistant bacterial infections in schools have members state wide concerned, and NYSUT is responding with a new training program and informational CD through its Education & Learning Trust. There has been widespread media coverage of MRSA — Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — a type of bacteria resistant to certain antibiotics that has been dubbed the […]

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Independent midwives - paid for privately by parents to allow them to give birth at home - are under threat because they lack professional indemnity insurance to cover them if things go wrong. This lack of insurance can have disastrous consequences. Channel 4 News has spoken to one couple who were left with no redress when […]

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The Department of Health and Children has drafted new legislation on the regulation of Nurses and Midwives. The main objectives of this new legislation are to protect the public in its dealings with the professions of nursing and midwifery, and to ensure the integrity of these professions through the promotion of high standards of professional […]

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The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney TD, today, 30th November, 2007 congratulated the first group of nurses and midwives to successfully complete the Certificate in Nursing (Nurse/Midwife Prescribing) Programme at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
 “Improving patient care is at the heart of the nurse and midwife prescribing initiative and I believe […]

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Minister for Health Promotion and Food Safety, Pat the Cope Gallagher has confirmed that a new purpose built primary care centre is to be provided on the centrally located site of the former national school at Glenties.  It is planned that the Primary Care Centre will provide General Practitioner Services, Public Health Nursing Services, Community […]

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A new survey has revealed a nationwide midwives shortage crisis as Wellington Hospital backs down on its plan to “bribe” new mothers to leave hospital early. A draft report on the survey obtained by National health spokesman Tony Ryall shows a national shortage of about 200 private and hospital midwives. About 2550 midwives work in […]

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DHB midwives had been told in a memo that because of a shortage of midwives — the DHB 15 such vacancies, a third of its workforce — a six-bed maternity ward would be closed for those two months, on top of six Wellington Hospital maternity beds closed for the last year due to a lack […]

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I’ve listened to seven years of promises that the NHS is improving and that health-care is at the top of the Government’s agenda. But maternity care in Britain has gone to the dogs. Every year thousands of women are being left to give birth terrified and alone in filthy wards. This isn’t just my view - […]

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After 29 years and an estimated 3,300 babies delivered from Jefferson County to the Tennessee line, Jean Pence, 67, is leaving her beloved job as a midwife. She retired Friday. “The saddest thing in life is for someone to go through life and not have a purpose,” she said. She feels her purpose in life […]

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Women who eat crisps or chips every day may double their chances of ovarian or womb cancer, say scientists. The fears surround acrylamides, chemicals produced when you fry, grill or roast a wide range of foods.  “This new study supports our current advice, which already assumes that acrylamide has the potential to be a human […]

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