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The second one version of this winning textual content is a necessary and available consultant to felony points of midwifery for all midwife supervisors, midwives, and midwifery scholars. Midwives will locate this e-book offers them with the data and figuring out they require to make feel of the felony rules that have an effect on their daily paintings and allay their anxieties, encouraging them to increase and increase their perform competently and with confidence.This new version comprises new and revised case reports all through. It additionally includes new sections on NHS responsibility, the Human Rights Act, the knowledge safeguard Act, reproductive applied sciences and disciplinary pathways.? Relates criminal matters to daily midwifery perform? Written via an skilled midwife for midwives? available, appropriate and updated

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One person to be appointed by the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses (Rosalind Paget); and . one person to be appointed by the Royal British Nurses Association (original dissenters indicated earlier). Powers given to the CMB by the legislation were: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) to frame rules: (a) regulating their own proceedings; (b) regulating the issue of certificates and the condition of admission to the Roll of Midwives; (c) regulating the course of training, the conduct of examinations and the remuneration of examiners; (d) regulating the admission to the Roll of women already in practice as midwives at the passing of the Act; (e) regulating, supervising and restricting within due limits the practice of midwives; (f) deciding the conditions under which midwives might be suspended from practice; (g) defining the particulars required to be given in any notice under section 10 of the Act (which required notification of intention to practise); to appoint examiners; to decide upon the place where and the time when examinations should be held; to publish annually a Roll of Midwives who had been duly certified under the Act; to decide upon the removal from the Roll of the name of any midwife for disobeying the rules and regulations from time to time laid down under the The Statutory Profession of Midwifery (6) (7) 27 Act by the CMB, or for other misconduct, and also to decide upon the restoration to the Roll of the name of any midwife so removed; to issue and cancel certificates; and generally to do any other act or duty which might be necessary for the due and proper carrying out of the provisions of the Act.

As notification of intention to practise is a statutory requirement, it is an offence to practise without doing so, except in an emergency, which was dealt with earlier. A midwife's notification can only be refused if she has not complied with Rule 37 below. Rule 37: Post-Registration Education and Practice (PREP) Since 1936 there has been a statutory requirement for midwives to update themselves professionally. Initially the updating was prescribed but, over time, more flexibility was included until, from 1 April 1995, it became a completely flexible, practitioner-led process that applied to nurses and health visitors as well.

254) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 Human Rights Act 1998 24 The Law and the Midwife Maastricht Treaty 1992 Midwives Act 1951 Nurses, Midwives, Health Visitors Act 1979 Nurses, Midwives, Health Visitors Act 1992 Nurses, Midwives, Health Visitors Act 1997 Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 (SI 2002 No. 253) Protection from Harassment Act 1997 Scotland Act 1998 Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 Treaty of Amsterdam 1997 Cases Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 2 All ER 118 Donoghue v.

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