Army Maternity Services Report 1963

Survival of Premature Infants Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, 1952-1963

GENERAL MANAGEMENT The Special Care Baby Unit contains approximately 40 cots and incubators. It has its own senior nursing staff, and consultant paediatric medical staff who also hold appointments at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. Babies admitted to the nursery are nursed either in cots or in incubators with high humidity at a temperature of 85-95°F. depending on their weight and...

Report of N.A.M.H. 1963 A.G.M.

The business of maternity services.

It may well be of benefit to maternity services if all providing care within it viewed their service as a family business. How would you as a midwife expect your business to run? How would you ensure you had the right staff in place at the right time to deliver first-class quality services to all your customers? How would you ensure you attracted enough business to make your service viable and ...

Mapping maternity services in Australia: location, classification and services.

OBJECTIVE To describe maternity services available to Australian women and, in particular, the location, classification of services and support services available. DESIGN A descriptive study was conducted using an online survey that was emailed to eligible hospitals. Inclusion criteria for the study included public and private maternity units with greater than 50 births per year. In total, 27...

Review of maternity services in New Zealand.

The provision of maternity services is a subject close to my heart. Like many other key life experiences nothing can prepare you for the reality of actually having a baby. It wasn't until I became pregnant with my first child Joseph in 1997 that I realised there was much more to having a child than the physical and emotional rigors. The politics of health are not exactly user-friendly, especial...