AN OXFORD midwife has won a national award for helping teach others about the profession.

Wendy Randall was recognised at the 2019 British Journal of Midwifery Awards this month.

Ms Randall, a consultant midwife at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, was awarded alongside fellow midwife Christine Harding of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, for helping to improve midwives' training in monitoring babies' hears in the womb.

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The duo developed an interactive Intermittent Auscultation (IA) tool that will enable midwives to detect changes in the womb more accurately.

The tool, alongside a training package, is intended to make IA safer and enable midwives to better assess how babies cope with the labour.

Ms Randall said: "We are very proud that our work has been recognised as the best contribution to midwifery education and we hope it will reach out to as many people as possible.

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“We feel that there has never been such a robust training programme for IA or an assessment and this is vital for ensuring safe maternity care.

“We hope that the BJM award we received will raise the profile of our training and hope that many organisations (NHS and Universities) will see the value of our package.”