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• Registered Midwife • RCM Early Career Midwife Network Chair • Comms & Engagement Professional • Mum of Three • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 • All views my own •

Joined February 2009
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TIME's new cover: The dire wolf is back after over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species ti.me/4jlJB54
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The @ScotlandRCM Early Career Midwife (ECM) Network would like to explore the experiences of early career midwives. Tell us what matters to you! To take part please use the link below 👇 The survey closes Monday 7th April at 5pm. forms.office.com/e/cAajLLac0… #midwifery #midwife
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The @ScotlandRCM Early Career Midwife (ECM) Network would like to explore the experiences of early career midwives. Tell us what matters to you! To take part please use the link below 👇 The survey closes Monday 7th April at 5pm. forms.office.com/e/cAajLLac0… #midwifery #midwife
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WIN tickets to Scotland v Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 We have 4️⃣ tickets available for this clash at Murrayfield on Saturday 8th March 🏟️ To enter: ▶️ Follow @Rhino_Sport ▶️ Tag 3 friends in the comments ▶️ Retweet this post 🗓️ Deadline 04.03.25 Good luck! 🤞
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At almost 80% of our target, only the Scottish Borders and North West London remain grey in our map of participants! 🎉 @CapitalMidwife @khazaezadeh @JakiLambert can you help me to turn those areas orange? #midwives views on #freebirth matter! join the rest UK & answer our survey
Super excited to announce the "UK midwives and freebirth survey" is now open! 🎉 If you are a #midwife in the UK, and work in any clinical capacity in maternity care, please complete my online survey to share your views on #freebirth ! More ℹ️ and 🔗 here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
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Christmas and New Year break over. Two sleeps until we’re back in the studio. Working hard at home today 💙 🩰 #tinydancer #elsieflorence
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Midwife? Birth worker? Please fill in this survey on UK midwives’ views on freebirth👇. All responses are hugely appreciated! And María is currently particularly looking for global majority and N. Ireland participants. Please share with your networks. #freebirth #midwifery
Super excited to announce the "UK midwives and freebirth survey" is now open! 🎉 If you are a #midwife in the UK, and work in any clinical capacity in maternity care, please complete my online survey to share your views on #freebirth ! More ℹ️ and 🔗 here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
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Attention Attention!! 📣📣 big exciting news coming through!! I am now ready to launch the next phase of my PhD on #freebirth .If you are a UK #midwife working clinically in maternity services, stay tuned! I am going to want to hear from you!! 👍🏼😁🔜
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“The fundamental recommendation; ensuring there are enough midwives to provide care - is not being addressed. It is tantamount to gaslighting to be told consistently there are no vacancies when we cannot meet care needs in numbers or skill mix.” DEEDS NOT WORDS PLS @neilcgray ⚠️
After a week of more news headlines on the safety of Scotland’s maternity services RCM’s Director for Scotland Jaki Lambert discusses the reality behind the headlines. Check out our blog here: buff.ly/3Dla17l
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Congratulations to our U16s - the 2024 U16 National Youth Cup Champions
Boroughmuir claim the U16 Cup after a close encounter with Currie Chieftains 🏆 Report ➡️ tinyurl.com/yyrtskvn
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Awful? Yes. Unexpected? No. I hope these whistleblowers are being protected and treated well, and I hope their bravery emboldens other midwives to speak up and raise their concerns. #midwifery #whistleblow #maternity #earlycareermidwives
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My beautiful little ballerina 🩰 So excited for her first pointe prep class 💖 #tinydancer #ballet #pointe
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Midwife designs special scrubs for fathers of C-section babies news.stv.tv/east-central/mid… Proud of my colleagues leading the way in Scotland☺️ Being able to offer skin to skin to all babies, in all circumstances, makes such a difference ❤️ #midwifery #skintoskin @ScotlandRCM
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The best evening with the best company❤️ #DreamTeam
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“For antiracism work to work we need to create a culture and understanding that this has to be built collaboratively. We have to provide safe spaces for people to ask the questions to give us agency & help us use our voice.” Samia Kaddeer, Lecturer @UniWestScotland @ScotlandRCM
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“Midwives are central, essential to postnatal care. You can’t divide up the care women are getting. We have to find better ways to support midwives to do midwifery. To make sure women don’t fall through the cracks with fragmented care.” Prof @maryrenfrew on importance of PN care.
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“Midwives are the only people there for all women and babies at all points in the continuum. They are the glue that holds the system together. The fact that midwifery is weakened in the UK at the moment is a big issue. But it can be fixed.” Dr @maryrenfrew #SMiLe24 @ScotlandRCM
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Dr @maryrenfrew presenting lessons learned from the report ‘Enabling Safe Quality Midwifery Services & Care in Northern Island’. Definitely going home to read through the 32 recommendations and how they include building for the future. #SMiLe24 @ScotlandRCM #midwifery
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Huge congratulations to the amazing @siobhan_cal, @ScotlandRCM Student of the Year 🌟 🏆 👏 #studentmidwife #midwifery #earlycareermidwife #SMiLe24
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