Thursday 30 November 2017

Understanding women’s preferences for opting into midwifery-led birth centre with Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust

Carol Lambert
Funding application of £10,000 over one year granted from East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group to undertake:

The Fatima Allam Birth Centre: Understanding women’s preferences for opting into midwifery-led birth centre with Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust.

Giving birth is generally very safe and it is effectively demonstrated that midwifery-led care in a non-obstetric environment is safe for women and their babies, cost effective and has positive associations with both user and staff satisfaction. This year, the Fatima Allam midwifery-led birth centre opened at the Women and Children’s Hospital and offers women the choice of birthing environments that national guidance recommends. Considering most women opt for obstetric unit care, there is need to understand the preferences of women eligible to book to the birth centre facility in the Hull and East Yorkshire Trust, their perceptions of midwifery-led care and what their expectations are in relation to this provision of care. Understanding this is a key element to ensure the birth centre operates to its full potential and the positive associations with this birth environment can be shared by women, practitioners and service provision.

The study will be led by Dr Carol Lambert (Researcher in Maternal and Reproductive Health) with co-applicants Julie Flint (midwifery lecturer), Professor Julie Jomeen (Dean of Faculty) and practice partners at the Hull Women and Children’s Hospital, Jan Cairns (Head of Midwifery) and Lorraine Cooper (Lead Midwife).
Julie Jomen
Julie Flint


Monday 20 November 2017

Seminar: Understanding the role of WSB-1 in breast cancer

The sixth speaker in the 2017 Biomedical Science Seminar Series is Dr Isabel Pires, School of Life Sciences Biomedical Sciences subject group University of Hull.


As part of the BMS Seminar series, the seminar takes place on Wednesday 6th December, 1-2pm Hardy LT2.

Isabel is a cancer biologist, and is particularly interested in how low oxygen (hypoxia) in tumours impacts on metastatic spread and therapy. She is an enthusiastic science communicator, and has given talks in such events as TEDx Hull and Pint of Science. She is the main organiser of Soapbox Science Hull

Thursday 9 November 2017

Nicki Credland in Brazil

Nicki is in Rio, Brazil addressing the XXII Brazilian Congress of Intensive Care Medicine. Nicki´s paper was on the Recruitment and Retention of Intensive Care Nurses.

Wednesday 1 November 2017

‘There’s no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame’

Professor Liz Walker has published:

Walker E (2017) 'There's no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame': contemporary experiences of HIV in the United Kingdom Health doi: 10.1177/1363459317739436

Embracing mental health and physical health care

Jacquie White has co-authored a chapter in: 









Hardy S and White J. (2017) Embracing mental health and physical health care In Clifton A, Hemingway S, Felton A and Stacey G (eds) Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing: An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.