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Module 8: Improving migrant women’s experiences of maternity services

By the end of this module you will:

  • Have insight into how migrant women perceive and experience maternity care.
  • Understand how to draw on those experiences to improve the care you provide.
This module has nine components.


1. Reflective Practice

What do you think migrant women would say was positive about your service?



2. Reflective Practice

What do you think migrant women would say that was negative about your service?



3. Reflective Practice

‘Mothers are made to feel the staff are doing them a favour by helping them give birth.’

How do you think migrant maternity service users might have been given the impression that ‘staff are doing them a favour’?

4. Presentation - part 1

5. Presentation - part 2

5. Case study

6. Case study question

What could the first midwife who Naeema asked about nappies have said or done differently?



7. Case study question

What was the impact on Naeema of being accused of making up an illness to stay in a nice hospital bed?



8. Case study question

What would you do if you witnessed an incident like the midwives asking ‘What’s wrong with them, these Africans?’



9. Case study question

What could the group of midwives who made a joke about Naeema getting pregnant in her lung have done differently? What could they have done when Naeema became upset?

Suggested answers

10.  When you have completed the course, please download the certificate of completion, fill in your name and the date and print for your records.