This session will discuss the key findings from the above mentioned paper. With a focus on labour augmentation with oxytocin, it will consider why the Sustainable Development Goal aiming to achieve gender equality is not incorporated into UK maternity care. This session will give an overview of the associated risks of labour augmentation with oxytocin, and contemplate how women’s rights are potentially violated through lack of informed consent, with influence from the risk discourse, changing epidemiology and sociocultural norms.
Justine has worked as a midwife for 10 years. During that time she has gained clinical experience in various hospitals, alongside a birth centre and a community setting in the East Midlands. Justine is passionate about learning and teaching and...
Assistant Professor of Midwifery, University of Nottingham
Traci Hudson is an Assistant Professor of Midwifery at the University of Nottingham. As a clinical midwife, she worked in a variety of different areas in the North West providing midwifery via different models of care including team midwifery,...
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