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 October 2008 edition:

• The NCT's Improving Access and Choice Project in the West Midlands
• Reaching Out: to mothers-to-be in Styal Prison 
• Reaching Out: to people in the London Borough of Hillingdon
• Saggy Boobs and Other Breastfeeding Myths: how an award-winning book came about
• The development of a waterbirth service in Wolverhampton
• Standards for maternity care: report of a working party
• Improving maternity care for disabled parents in East Kent
• How to influence children's trusts
• The Health Building Note and its implications for improving birth environments
• Strategic Health Authorities' visions for improving health and healthcare
• Formula milk advertising and the law
• Social inequalities in maternal and perinatal mortality: a summary of research
• Disabled women's experiences of becoming a mother
• How to research effectively (part 2)

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