Our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package was shortlisted in the Johnson & Johnson Award for Excellence in Midwifery Education category of this year’s RCM Midwifery Awards. The RCM Annual Midwifery Awards each year help to promote and celebrate the best in midwifery with the awards lunch taking place in London on Wednesday 27 January.

Shortlisted entrants were invited to present their projects to the judging panel in London on 16 and 17 November 2009. As previously blogged, our package is a high quality, interactive, web-based ‘reusable learning object’, aimed at final year student midwives, using video narratives of women’s lived experiences of breastfeeding selected from Healthtalkonline. A demonstration version is available from the Healthtalkonline website in the Teaching and Learning Section.

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Pleased to report that a demonstration version of our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package is now available on the Healthtalkonline website in the Teaching and Learning Section.

The package is a high quality, interactive, web-based ‘reusable learning object’, aimed at final year student midwives. Using video narratives of women’s lived experiences of breastfeeding selected from Healthtalkonline, together with other published evidence, students are provided with an enhanced insight about what kind of support is effective, empowering and valued, and what support is regarded as unhelpful, detrimental and disempowering. They are then encouraged to critically evaluate and challenge current practices that influence the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, as well as reflect on their own practice and attitudes to breastfeeding.

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Hugh Grant (whose mother died of pancreatic cancer) has been helping to raise awareness of Healthtalkonline with one of the creators Dr Ann McPherson on BBC Breakfast…..

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Nice to see the Daily Telegraph writing about Healthtalkonline (formerly Dipex). If you haven’t visited it yet, the site lets you share in other people’s experiences of health and illness. You can watch or listen to videos of the interviews, read about people’s experiences and find reliable information about conditions, treatment choices and support.

We have links to this site through the work we have been doing on our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package and have been working recently on providing them with an edited version of the package which should be appearing on their site in the next few months in the Teaching and Learning Section.

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