Happy International Day of the Midwife!🤰👩🏿‍🍼 🎥 Tune in to hear from @SallyPairman as she discusses how midwives are vital for climate change solutions. Don't miss this empowering message on #IDM2024!

Happy international day of the midwife to wonderful colleagues making a difference all over the world 🌍 #IDM2024 Celebrating you all with this poem from Hollie McNish

Investing in the education and training of #midwives is key for addressing maternal🤰 and infant👶 mortality and maintaining health in the first 5 years of life. 👉 bit.ly/3QqYQh7 #IDM2024 #MidwivesSaveLives

FIGO is joining ICM International Confederation of Midwives to advocate for midwives as a vital climate solution. Continuity of midwife care also ensures OB-GYNs can focus on complex health needs, reducing carbon emissions & promoting sustainable health services. #IDM2024 #InternationalDayOfTheMidwives

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Messages from & to midwives + midwifery students to join the global IDM celebration & flag how key midwives are also for sustainability and climate! #IDM2024 ⁦International Confederation of Midwives⁩ ⁦HSS at BU⁩ ⁦@EvanTeijlingen⁩ ⁦Vanora Hundley⁩ ⁦Prof Anand Pandyan⁩

Reposting link to interesting blog of jwoodmidwife, reminding me also of the little 'ritual' we had during the series we host of 'zoom the midwife' during the pandemic when indeed we asked about the term 'midwife' in the different language to our international colleagues

"Conversation is the communal air we breathe". A summary & sketchnote of "Supercommunicators" - a new book by Charles Duhigg. It sets out why some people ("supercommunicators") are able to connect with others, build consensus & influence people to join them. He suggests this can be

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A paper fruit of the work done with the Italian national institute of health . Thanks toObst Sara Ornaghi for leading on this ⁦@EvanTeijlingen⁩ ⁦Vanora Hundley⁩ ⁦Research @ Bournemouth University⁩ ⁦Prof Anand Pandyan⁩ obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

So crucial

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"Efficiency" & "productivity": two terms that we often confuse. As a result, we may struggle to address the problems we face because they focus on different problems with different solutions. High efficiency does not mean high productivity. We can create highly efficient

Midwives Midwives Midwives globally it is our family and our strength 🥰

The role and skills of leaders needs to change, in line with profound changes in the workplace. In a new article in Harvard Business Review, a group of experts has identified 6 essential skills to thrive as a leader in the new environment: 1) emotional aperture - the ability to understand

Great to see researchers from across Wessex including Centre for Midwifery & Women's Health at BU collaborating and working to improve women's health. #BUProud Prof Anand Pandyan @EvanTeijlingen Research @ Bournemouth University tinyurl.com/2s4dcccu

As leaders of change, how we think is as important as what we do. A key aspect of this is having a growth mindset (rather than a fixed mindset). This means that we: - believe the people in our teams are imaginative & innovative & everyone has the ability to learn & grow - see

I had a conversation today about the difference between "kindness" & "niceness" in leadership so I decided to post about it. The article & graphic explain why, as leaders, we should choose kindness over niceness. Kindness is about caring enough to push people toward greatness,

Huge effort by so many people. Looking forward to our first Mums and babies arriving tomorrow from 08:00 to the new maternity & neonatal units in our BEACH building at Bournemouth. University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

A new study looked at how using AI assistants like ChatGPT for writing tasks impacts the brain & thinking skills. It focussed on students writing essays but the findings have implications for workplace leaders. The researchers found that people who used AI used their brains less,