Midwifery: Recommended Websites for Midwives

Websites can be particularly useful for:

• Keeping you up to date with research and developments in your discipline
• Informing you of guidelines, standards and best practice
• Alerting you to training and employment opportunities

• Royal College of Midwives

  "The RCM is the voice of midwifery. We are the UK's only professional organisation and trade union led by midwives for midwives."

• Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC)

  "We are the nursing and midwifery regulator for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Find out more about who we are and what we do. Have a look round our website and get involved."

• Health & Care Professions Council (HPC)

  "We are a regulator, and we were set up to protect the public. To do this, we keep a Register of health and care professionals who meet our standards for their training, professional skills, behaviour and health."

• Perinatal Institute

  "The Perinatal Institute is a national not-for-profit organisation set up to enhance the safety and quality of maternity care. It is a qualified provider of maternity support services, including education and training in standardised maternity records, fetal growth assessment and perinatal audit."

• Child & Maternal Health Intelligence Network

  "This network brings together a range of publicly available data, information, reports, tools and resources on child and maternal health into one easily accessible hub. It helps you find and use the information and evidence you need to improve decision making as part of your planning or commissioning process. The data is regularly updated as new releases become available."

• Horizon Scanning Bulletin

  "The Horizon Scanning Bulletins support the commissioning process and service redesign, bringing together new and emerging information on:
  *best practice
  *innovation
  *future risk factors"

• British National Formulary for Children (BNFC)                                                                           "Key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines used for children."

• British National Formulary (BNF)                                                                                                 "Key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines."