New Digest

The quarterly journal provides an easy way to keep up-to-date with user involvement, pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood issues.

It covers latest developments affecting maternity and new parents’ services; critical appraisal of recent research with a round-up of new research and policy; and day-to-day practice of identifying and responding to parents’ needs during pregnancy, birth and the early days. It also includes latest information on NCT campaigns and lobbying, and reviews of recently-published books relating to maternity care and early parenthood.  

In the July 2008 edition:

• The work of a support group for parents of premature babies in Warwickshire
• Effective strategies for promoting Early Day courses
• NCT specialist workers’ perspectives on the Child Health Promotion Programme
• A tribute to Professor Norman Morris
• Women’s experience of postnatal care in London
• An interview with the UK’s first professor of perinatal education, Mary Nolan
• A user guide to the new Maternity Service Liaison Committee website
• NCT Active: how the NCT can help you campaign effectively
• The Campaign to End Child Poverty: keeping the pressure on the Government
• A review of The Business of Being Born, a film by Abby Epstein
• A step-by-step guide for students new to online research
• Using the All Wales Clinical Pathway for Normal Labour: a qualitative study

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