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MIDIRS (Midwives Information & Resource Service) provides evidence-based resources to support maternity health care professionals, students, and allied health professionals in their professional and academic development.

  • We do not provide medical advice. Contact your midwife or GP if you have any concerns about pregnancy.

Our History

Founded in the 1980s, we are the world’s largest midwifery-specific database and the producers of internationally renowned quarterly journal MIDIRS Midwifery Digest. In 2019, we became part of RCM.

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Our Mission

Our mission is to be at the forefront, leading international information for pregnancy, childbirth and infancy. We endeavour to share this information widely, to assist in the global improvement of maternity care. We champion evidence-based practice, helping health care professionals to create, to distribute and to use it to improve maternity health services.

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Our Aims

Our maternity information and resource service aims are to:

be accessible and easy to use

be responsive to changes in health care requirements

include all types of maternity care practitioners

be recognised by educational and clinical institutions

contribute to improvements in maternity services worldwide

highlight the contribution of evidence-based practice by health care professionals

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From literature searches to back issues and everything in between.

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Discovering MIDIRS as a junior midwife was so exciting and empowering – so much information, so easily read, all in the one place. Not only that, but the MIDIRS staff would undertake a literature search for you if you needed it!
Helen Cheyne
RCM Professor of Midwifery
I recently wrote an essay on obesity, and some of my research that I found helpful I retrieved from MIDIRS journals. Needless to say it certainly paid off as I received a mark of 90%... thank you, MIDIRS!
Nicola Landeg
2nd year Student Midwife at Cardiff University
MIDIRS means: enabling midwives to give evidence based thoughtful care
Lesley Page
Professor of Midwifery

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The MIDIRS website is provided for reference information only. We are not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a user based on the content of the website. Although great care is taken to ensure reference information is both suitable and accurate, RCM Information Services Limited is not liable for the contents of any external internet sites referenced, nor does it endorse any commercial product or service mentioned or advised on any of these sites. We accept payment in British pound sterling £

RCM Information Services Limited, Registered Office: 10-18 Union St, London, England, SE1 1SZ, Company Number: 11914882

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