Midwifery Matters Spring 2015 Issue 144
Content
Editorial 2
News and Views
Supervision 3
NHS Pay Negotiations 4
Articles
Growing a local group, Elizabeth Blamire 5
Induction of labour using cervical ripening balloon, Frances Hodgson 6
Letter to a young student midwife, Suyai Steinhauer 9
Midwives Working TIme: propping up the system within the NHS, Mavis Kirkham 11
Empowering Home Birth – a student’s perspective, Tamsyn Green 13
First Homebirth Conference in the Czech Republic, Pamela Dorling 17
Book Review – “BUMP” Kate Evans 22
Business
Winter National Meeting Report 19
Shaping the future of Midwifery Maters 22
What’s on
ARM Wigan Study Day “How Useful is the Evidene?” 24
Local groups 26
Diary dates 26
Spring National Meeting “Taking Midwifery Forward” 27