SOMSA in collaboration with the WCEA CPD platform
The important of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemichttps://youtu.be/KxcreBulda0
SA National Maternity Case Record
SA National Maternity Case Record.
SA National Maternity Case Record Surgery Insert September 2018.
Maternal Care Guidelines 2015 Final.
SOMSA – Important COVID-19 Communication.
Please click below links to download more information.
COVID-19 Infection in Pregnancy.
ICM call to Government to provide personal protective equipment to midwives.
Upholding women’s rights during COVID-19.
SOMSA 2019 Presentations
Below are the downloadable presentations for the SOMSA 2019 Conference:
- Jabu Makhanya (Ministerial Address)
- Lesley Rose – The SA National PMTCT Guidelines (2019)
- Lolly Mashao – Update on the Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Statistics in SA (NaPeMMCo)
- Yogan Pillay – Pre-eclampsia, Severe Pre-eclampsia & Eclampsia
- Yogan Pillay – The New SA Maternity Case Record
- Yogan Pillay – New recommendations for managing labour
- Kobie Marais – Progress on new Education Framework
- Karin Minnie – Barriers to research utilization as perceived by midwives in Community Health Centres in Gauteng
- Magreet Wibbelink – Perspectives of South African women and midwives on clinical practice in public maternity units: facilitating the scaling-up of such clinical practices
- Ayanda Ngema – Factors associated with lost to follow up of HIV +ve pregnant women in KwaDukuza PHC
- Nancy Kidula – Intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience
- Nancy Kidula – Recommendations for Postpartum Family Planning
- Kholeka Makhathini – SRH Indicators: SOMSA call to action
- Sanele Lukhele – Cultural Continuity as a Determinant of Girls Sexual Health Education
- Elgonda Bekker – Way Forward
- Fanny Nyalunga – Restoring Professionalism in Midwifery: Upholding ethical values in Midwifery profession
- J. Sebidi (NDoH) – What technology and apps does a midwife need
SOMSA 2018 Presentations
Below are the downloadable presentations for the SOMSA 2018 Conference:
- Barbara Hanrahan – Preparing for Birth and Emergency Readiness
- Barbara Hanrahan – The Rights of the Newborn
- Barbara Hanrahan – Work-related Stress as a Driver of Mistreatment of Women in labour and birth
- Christine Peta – Midwives of SA you are midwives of disabled women and their children too
- Delene Botha – DOES A DOLL-PARENTING PROJECT CHANGE ANYTHING IN TEENAGERS THOUGHTS
- Delene Botha – Why why not do we have doulas
- Elgonda Bekker – Greeting midwives
- Elgonda Bekker – Is a midwife, a midwife in South Africa
- Elgonda Bekker – Postpartum Haemorrhage New Policy
- Elgonda Bekker – Role of midwives in Saving Mothers 2014-2016
- Elgonda Bekker – Welcome midwives.
- Elizabeth Mokoka – EDUCATION OF MIDWIVES
- Frances Granges – Global Vision and commitment to infant skincare
- Gregory Petro – MIDWIVES IN CONTRACEPTION AND FERTILITY PLANNING
- Jane Sebidi – MomConnect NC presentation
- Jessica Dutton – What Drives Disrespect and Abuse Across the Continuum of Maternal Health Care in Midwifery Obstetric Units Involving Nurses and Midwives in Urban Western Cape
- Karen Venter and Elgonda Bekker – Transforming midwife educators competencies An Appreciative Inquiry
- Lizane Fuzy – Please treat me like a person – Adolescent mothers between 14 and 16 years experiences of childbirth
- Lumka Mangoejane – MNCWH Provincial MCWH Strategic priorities 2018 2019
- Manala Makua – National Women, Maternal and Reproductive Health Policies and Guidelines
- Mariatha Yazbek – Experiences of pregnant women with ultrasound examination
- Marthinus Schoon – Difference between maternity outcomes public private health service
- Marthinus Schoon – MEDICAL LEGAL PITFALLS Challenges in the maternity section
- Marthinus Schoon – Reporting on adverse events in the Free State province
- Nardus Koekemoer – Free flow, pressure controlled uterine balloon tamponade (UBT)
- National Committee on Confidential Enquiry of Maternal Deaths – Saving Mothers 2014-2016 Seventh triennial report on confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in South Africa
- NNASA, NEA and SOMSA – South African Neonatal Skincare Guidelines
- Nthabiseng Malinga – MATERNAL AND NEONATAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PERINATAL DEATHS IN A DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN THE FREE STATE
- Ntsoaki Ralejoana – Quality midwifery education leads to competent midwives
- Petro-Lize Wessels – Patient Blood Management
- PM Jiyane – Transforming midwifery care in a public Maternity ward, Mpumalanga, South Africa
- Selda Ildan Calim – The effect of using a birth simulator for the midwifery students breech vaginal delivery skills
- Sheila Clos – What does South Africa need of midwives A new dawn for women, mothers and children in South Africa
- Spencer Nkosi – Screening and managing low risk pregnant population using continuous wave Doppler ultrasound in a low income population A cohort analytic study
- Sthandwa Mnqayi – Choice against Health care ethics CTOP
- Sthandwa Mnqayi – Miscarriage management with MVA
- Sthandwa Mnqayi – Nokuzola Mzolo – Respectful and Safe Childbirth
- Sunet Jordaan – Reflections on lessons learned during training to reach Emergency Medical Service personnel in five health districts South Africa
- Tsakane Musa Hlongwane – The effects of implementing Basic Antenatal Care (BANC) Plus on workload, detecting hypertension and perinatal mortality
- Valerie Vanneval – SA Intrapartum Care Guidelines
- Vanessa Booysen – HELPING BABIES BREATHE – THE WHY BEHIND EACH STEP
- Vanessa Booysen – IS the KMC Ward – Home away from Home or extended Hospital stay
- Vanessa Booysen – The life long effect of toxic stress in the neonatal period due to maternal-infant separation
- Vanessa Booysen – The role of the midwife Translating labour ward practices into life long health
- Winnie Motlolometsi – Pre-entry test as an admission criteria Advanced midwifery programme
South African Neonatal Skin Care Guidlines
Click here to read the guideline
A newsletter for Provincial Assessors of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths
Click here to read the newsletter
International Womens Day – Statement by Franka Cadée, ICM President
WHO recommends Intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience
Saving Mothers Report 2014 – 2016
Saving Mothers Executive Summary | Saving Mothers: Short Report
Listeriosis – Symptoms and Prevention
Find out more about the symptoms and prevention of Listeriosis
Symptoms and prevention | Who has a higher risk?
Listeria Outbreak affects pregnant women
The Health Department is seeing more cases of Listeria (a disease spread through food). Pregnant women need to take care, it can affect your baby.
Respectful Care Training video
Herewith below is a video link shared by the NDoH’s Maternal and Neonatal Health Programme and recommended by the Ministerial National Committee on Enquiries into Maternal Deaths. This training video is aimed at trainers who train care providers in empathic engagement skills.
SOMSA 2017 Presentations
Below are the downloadable presentations for the SOMSA 2017 Conference:
- Listening to Midwives : Barbara Hanrahan
- Respectful care is Women and Family Centered : Barbara Hanrahan
- Respectful Maternity Care: Tackling Disrespect & Abuse During Facility-Based Childbirth : Barbara Hanrahan
- Why should Health Care Practitioner’s prioritise infant skin health? : Dr. Carol Hlela
- Values clarification: making meaningful reproductive choices : Dr Delene Botha
- Electronic Fetal Monitoring : Prof Diana du Plessis
- What do SA want and need of midwives and how do we reach that? : Elgonda Bekker
- A home for midwives : Elgonda Bekker
- Empowering Midwives In Human Rights To Enable Respectful Care : Fanny Nyalunga
- Competency based midwifery education & Direct entry proposal: Fanny Nyalunga
- Reducing Maternal and Neonatal mortality in North West Province : Grace Tsele
- Enhancing an ethico-legal conducive intrapartum care environment : Dr J M Mathibe-Neke
- Leadership Development: Post-Partum Haemorrhage in Non Obstetrical Wards : Johanna van Jaarsveld
- Outcomes of births attended by private midwives in Gauteng, South Africa : Karen Minnie
- Women’s views and experiences of continuous support during childbirth : a meta-synthesis: Karen Minnie
- “High risk clinics” for reducing Maternal and Perinatal Mortality : Dr. Litty Syam
- Competency based midwifery education: are we birthing quantity or quality? : Dr Nelouise Geyer
- Providing respectful, high-quality care in Tshwane District Midwife Obstetric units: Implementation of a context-adaptable intervention package : Sarie Oosthuizen
- Roles And Responsibilities Of Midwife And Advanced Midwife : Thandiswa, Thembie, Ayanda and Brenda
- The Gauteng Department of Health and GE Vscan Access Pilot Program : Dr TJ Mashamba
- Basic Antenatal Care Package in South Africa : Tsakane Hlongwe
- The life long effect of toxic stress in the neonatal period due to maternal-infant separation : Vanessa Booysen
- Little Steps Visual Guide to Neurodevelopmental Supportive Care : Welma Lubbe
- The ‘neonatal-midwife’ – a missing speciality? : Welma Lubbe
- Ultrasound working group : Winnie Motlolometsi
- Resolutions ultrasound group : Winnie, Kholeka and Rebecca
- Unfolding Information Needs To Improve The Utilization Of Antenatal Care Services: A Descriptive Case Study In The Western Cape : Winston Smeda
