News and features
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Women's Health Forum newsletter- Spring 2013
Published: 09 May 2013
RCN Women's Health Forum Spring 2013 newletter now available
Letter from Debra Holloway, Women's Health Forum Chair
Published: 01 May 2013
Our forum has been busy working to develop some new RCN publications. We have recently published Genital Examination in Women, which was a collaboration between the RCN, the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, and the British Association for Sexual Health. In January this year we also published Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Cervical Cancer - the Facts.
Letter from Carmel Bagness, RCN Midwifery and Women's Health Adviser
Published: 01 May 2013
Welcome to the spring issue of the Women’s Health Forum newsletter. It has, as always, been a busy time for the forum committee, who have been championing women’s health issues on your behalf; engaging with consultations and reviewing the RCN's termination of pregnancy guidance, due to be published this summer.
Contemporary issues: what's hit the news?
Published: 01 May 2013
New sexual health improvement framework for England, blood clots and artery blockage more common during IVF, a parliamentary inquiry into abortion on the grounds of disability, and the experiences of pregnant women seeking asylum. All these issues have hit the news recently.
Committee update
Published: 01 May 2013
Your forum committee has collated some links to some interesting information on Congress, International Women's Day activity, home pregnancy testing kits information, and a new publication on genital examination in women.
Careers in the spotlight
Published: 01 May 2013
My role as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in urogynaecology, by Ellie Stewart.
Latest publications
Published: 01 May 2013
Your forum committee has collated the latest publications of relevance to our specialty.
Looking to join a nursing network or group?
Published: 01 May 2013
Find out more about the All Wales Network of Nurses Working in Termination Services and the Colposcopy Nurses Group.
New resource:-The Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Counselling Competences
Published: 27 March 2013
Information on new Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Counselling Competences