Rise domestic abuse charity have just lost the contract to deliver services to those experiencing domestic violence and their families in the city. RISE Rise Jo and ask @escceconomy Brighton & Hove City Council East Sussex County Council Dan Yates for Sussex @Pheilimmac @tomdruit change.org/p/brighton-hov…

⚡️BAND 6 MIDWIVES. Come and join us by the sea in Brighton or in the beautiful countryside of Sussex! We also have community vacancies in our award-winning homebirth service - Brighton and Haywards Heath based. ➡️ bit.ly/3cq1ik3

St George's launched its first Menopause Café this week. The event, which will take place monthly, is open to all staff who want to discuss the menopause or understand more about how to support people experiencing it. Thanks to our health and wellbeing team for organising ☕️

Everyone visiting a healthcare setting in Sussex must continue to wear a face covering and follow social distancing rules from Monday. This includes hospitals, GP practices, dental practices, optometrists and pharmacies to ensure patients and staff are protected. #KeepSussexSafe

Shaun Lintern If only the maternity unit got this much money to run and staff services optimally.

To ensure wellbeing and motivation at work research suggests that people have three core needs – autonomy, belonging and contribution. Our report sets out eight key recommendations to transform the working lives of nursing and midwifery staff – read more: kingsfund.org.uk/publications/c…

If all those vitally important nursing assistants, carers, porters and domestics who can't get by on their wages do as you casually suggest, Rishi Sunak - namely, retrain and get better paid jobs - then who exactly will staff the NHS, please?

In a new blog, Dr Andrew Weeks discusses the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in members and trainees that witness traumatic events while working in healthcare, and the need to adequately support these colleagues. Andrew Weeks fal.cn/3jW1B

Make your voice heard! Participate in 'How should CQC assess perioperative care?' | Care Quality Commission cqc.citizenlab.co/en-GB/projects…

Calling UK-based obstetric colleagues! Please help with the ReBirth project (bit.ly/ReBirthVoices) . We're keen to hear the experiences and stories of people who work in the maternity services to make sure we come up with the best possible package for women and staff alike.

Stripping ur clothes off outside your front door, asking your husband to clear a path and make sure kids weren’t in it… … in order to run to the shower and wash and disinfect, horrified you might infect your 2 babies and your husband I remember that

Excellent first day for the Sussex Maternal Medicine Centre based at University Hospitals Sussex helping women planning pregnancy or already pregnant with complex medical disorders from Chichester, Worthing, Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings. #obstetricmedicine #OneTeam

Sally Lewis .. I know how you feel 😔 .. Your comments are symptomatic of the times we live in - we are human beings not human ‘doings’ 🤔 I posted a tweet about this earlier this month #StateOfFlux #SignOfTheTimes Infographic courtesy of the excellent @amyjccuddy and Tanmay Vora ✍ 🙌🌈💙

⭐The Patient First STAR award 2022 nominations are still open!⭐ Don't miss the chance to vote for an individual, team or volunteer that has gone above and beyond for yourself or a loved one. Voting closes this Friday. Find out more and nominate at: uhsussex.nhs.uk/stars2022/

This week on Florence (she/her) I talk all about cord prolapse promoted by that trailer of #ThisIsGoingToHurt buzzsprout.com/961453/9999611 listen to my podcast for an alternative view of life as an #nhs obstetrician

the right of a woman to decide what happens to her own body is a fundamental human right. There is no place for the state to dictate or decide. #choice #HumanRights #MyBodyMyChoice

🌟We are making a word cloud for University Hospitals Sussex Midwives for International Day of the Midwife this Thursday 5th May #IDM2022. Did you have a positive experience with one of our Midwives? Please share a couple of words on here. @UHSx_MVP @EmmaCha57896171 ➡️ forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

🌟Emma Chambers, Director of Midwifery University Hospitals Sussex talking about our upcoming maternity recruitment day: bit.ly/3KJeuAn We would love to meet you! ➡️ Click link to register: bit.ly/3q2DYPL

Always happy when I surround myself with other Katie’s! Fab British Intrapartum Care Society conference. Networking & sharing ideas! Now to implement! 🙌Kate Stringer Katie Tony Kelly Didi Craze UHSussex Maternity Services

"Care for us, but no one is allowed to be there for you...." that's what this is. Shameful. This will not increase applications for the shortage crisis in the care sector. And this won't solve the problem of increasing migration.