News
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New resource:-The Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Counselling Competences
Published: 27 March 2013
Information on new Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Counselling Competences
An RCN training and education framework for fertility nursing
Published: 15 March 2013
New RCN professional guidance for fertility nurses
Do you want to learn more about genetics?
Published: 15 March 2013
Information on the new RCN genetics online resource
Letter from the RCN Midwifery and Women's Health Adviser
Published: 27 February 2013
The biggest news has to be the change of focus of the Midwifery and Fertility Forum. After much consideration the RCN has agreed that midwives and fertility nurses need their own space to focus on key clinical issues affecting each group of professionals.
Implementation of elective single-embryo transfer (eSET) policy – a nursing perspective
Published: 27 February 2013
Nurses have a key role in promoting the elective single-embryo transfer policy. Forum member Val Peddie, a fertility nurse specialist and research midwife at the University of Aberdeen, writes on how nurses can engage with policy while promoting best practice.
Womb scratching: catching on?
Published: 26 February 2013
The latest fertility treatment that patients in the know are requesting is, to give it its hippest name, “womb scratching”. Formally known as an endometrial biopsy, it entails a procedure similar to a cervical smear and takes approximately 15 minutes to perform.
No transfer to the Care Quality Commission
Published: 26 February 2013
The response to the consultation on the future of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has been announced. The Government has decided that the functions of the HFEA will not be transferred to the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Reviewing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority code of practice
Published: 26 February 2013
The HFEA has withdrawn the print version of its code of practice from circulation, as of this January. This will reduce the cost of updating the code and lower the chance of outdated versions being referred to for guidance by mistake. The next update to the code will be 1 October.
Training and accreditation of embryologists
Published: 26 February 2013
The Department of Health (DH) is planning a programme of accrediting health care scientists called Modernising scientific careers (MSC). The course for embryologists is modular, centrally recruited and produces a hierarchy of trained embryologists from assistant to consultant level.