For health professionals
Our Free Health Professionals Training has been designed in collaboration with health professionals working in early pregnancy care, and will equip you with a toolkit for effective practice and reflection. Feedback from health professionals who’ve attended the training includes:
“Every health care professional caring for people experiencing a loss should attend this training. It is vital that families receive the best care possible when going through the loss of a baby, and this training can help us to provide that.”
“Highly recommend joining a training session. Extremely useful.”
“Great session, ideal for those caring for anyone going through pregnancy loss.”
Other resources for health professionals
The kind of care that women or couples receive from their GP, hospital or community staff can make a real difference to how they cope with the experience of pregnancy loss.
Everyone wants good medical care, based on up-to-date knowledge of miscarriage, ectopic or molar pregnancy. But the human aspects of care are also very important. Kindness, understanding, clear information and sensitive language are just some of the ways that doctors, nurses, midwives, sonographers and paramedics can help people cope with their experience.
The resources that you’ll find here aim to support you in providing the very best care that you can:
- Caring for women experiencing pregnancy loss – a free e-learning resource in five units
- Free health professionals training: Delivering effective and compassionate care
- GP practice – a template for patient follow-up after miscarriage
- Guidance regarding miscarriages that happen at home
- Certification
- Consultation & collaboration
- Engaging patients and public
- Useful publications
- Pregnancy Loss Guidance for Nursing
- Guidance on the disposal of pregnancy remains
Monthly online sessions for healthcare professionals working in early pregnancy:
Our monthly ‘Professional Pause’ sessions provide a safe space for all healthcare professionals working in early pregnancy. It’s an opportunity to discuss and reflect on challenging aspects of work – an open forum to discuss difficult situations or cases, enable people to share experiences, and offer each other support.
We facilitate these sessions alongside The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. The sessions are free of charge and we will provide a suggested topic to help start and guide the sessions. We encourage people to join prepared to share their own experiences.
All sessions can be viewed and booked our our Eventbrite page.
Please contact Helen (helen@miscarriageassociation.org.uk) for further details or information about our Professional Pause sessions.