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

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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 research to improve maternity health services.

Our History

MIDIRS was founded in 1986, developing from a small working group within the Association of Radical Midwives aimed at promoting the importance of continual education and professional development for all midwives.

Over 40 years, we have grown to become the definitive midwifery information resource for maternity professionals. Our team of dedicated librarians run the world’s largest midwifery-specific database, which they update daily by scanning over 150 international journals and publications. Additionally, we produce the internationally-renowned quarterly journal MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, which is in it’s 35th year of publication.

In 2019, we became part of the Royal College of Midwives.

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Our Aims

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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MIDIRS means: enabling midwives to give evidence based thoughtful care
Lesley Page
Professor of Midwifery
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

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