Today, May 5th marks International Day of the Midwife #IDM2022 In 2021/22 there was 2425 babies born at Altnagelvin Hospital and 1241 babies born at the South West Acute Hospital. Assistant Director of Women and Children’s Healthcare, Mary McKenna, pays tribute to midwives across the Western Trust and invites everyone to celebrate all of our midwifery staff: “I’d like to commend the midwives, the Clinical Specialist Midwives, our Student Midwives and our Midwifery Support Workers, all of whom ma

#NTH_CARES OUR NTH MIDWIVES WISHING YOU A HAPPY MIDWIFERY DAY. International Day of the Midwife is celebrated annually on 5 May, providing the opportunity to honour the work of midwives, and promote awareness of the crucial care that midwives provide to mothers and their newborns. This year marks the establishment, 100 years ago, | Ndola Teaching Hospital Official

Today is International Midwives' Day It is likely over the coming weeks you will notice a change to how maternity services are delivered in your Trust. We want to reassure you that the midwifery and obstetric team are doing their very best to deliver high quality, evidence based care while reducing the risk to women and staff. It is still important that women continue to attend their antenatal appointments and if they have concerns about non COVID-19 symptoms that they call the helpline numbers