Latest Maternity news

Alyanna, Sister at Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital and Samuel Johnson Community Hospital, shares her journey to nursing at UHDB this International #NursesDay.

Sunday 12 May is International Nurses Day, recognising the vital role of nurses in our NHS and providing compassionate and safe care to patients. Nurses make a difference to the lives of so many people and make a lasting impact on their health journeys.

Are you or someone you know looking for your first or next role in midwifery?

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are looking for midwives to join a rewarding career at #TeamUHDB caring for pregnant women and their families. Whether you are newly qualified or experienced, we want to hear from you.

UHDB's Maternity and Neonatal services have been recognised by the global children's wellbeing organisation, UNICEF, for their work in encouraging more parents to breastfeed their children and ensuring, when parents make an informed decision to use formula milk preparation, they do so safely.

A midwife who has spent 47 years working in the NHS says she would "do it all over again" if she had the chance, as she reflected on her career as we mark the NHS' 75^th anniversary.

Carol Adcock, 65, currently works as a midwife in Fetal Medicine at Royal Derby Hospital, and has known from an early age that she wanted to work in healthcare in some way: