Library Guides: Midwifery: Current Awareness & Latest News

Key publications and media sources

British Journal of Midwifery
1993 to Present in MAG Online Library.
Midirs Midwifery Digest
2006 to Present in Journals@Ovid Ovid Full Text.
The Practising Midwife
2013 to Present in Single Journals: please select Practising Midwife under 'Your Journals'.

Newspapers Search for news stories on health topics from the UK and around the world.

PressReader
PressReader provides interactive, digital access to thousands of newspapers and magazines from around the world including titles in over 50+ languages. Useful for studying page layout, advertisements, photographs, etc. PressReader archives provide access to the last year of most publications.
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Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BOB) lets you view, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 75 TV and radio channels. For educational use only.

Limitation - Full service available only to users located in the UK. BBC Parliament is temporarily available to users located anywhere in the world.
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Useful websites

It's important to keep up to date with developments in your field so your knowledge and skills are current. There are even services that gather information for you: you can sign up for bulletins or news feeds from external organisations on various topics and even create your own alerts.

Association of Radical Midwives
Group founded in 1978 to promote personalised midwifery care, they publish the journal Midwifery Matters (registered charity).
Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH)
Provides newsfeeds organised by Health Topic, Age Group and Health Functions & Management.
Doctoral Midwifery Research Society
Northern Ireland based organisation supporting and promoting research in midwifery.
King's Fund updates
Email updates on the activities, news and views of the Kings Fund as well as The King's Fund Leadership Newsletter, Health Management and Policy Alert, Health and Wellbeing Boards Alert and The Integrated Care Bulletin.
NHS England Bulletins
Sign up to a range of email bulletins aimed at different groups of NHS and healthcare professionals. New Care Models Update bulletin, Chief Nursing Officer bulletin, Chief Scientific Officer bulletin, Learning Disability Update, Liaison and diversion bulletin, Specialised commissioning stakeholder newsletter and more.
NICE newsletters and alerts
News and alerts from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, including Surveillance report alerts, Medicines and prescribing alerts, Medicines and prescribing: important new evidence, Medicines awareness service, NICE News, Update for Primary Care and more.
Royal College of Midwives
Professional organisation for midwives in the UK.