Coming Soon: FutureSuture: Supporting your clinical practice around childbirth related perineal trauma
Are you a newly qualified midwife?
Or a final year midwifery student?
We have developed an eLearning tool to provide you with more support with your perineal care and suturing practice.
New RCM iLearn module: Developed with midwives, students and women
We are pilot testing an eLearning intervention to support newly qualified midwives to develop skills, confidence and competence in perineal trauma. It has been informed by existing evidence and qualitative interview research as part of the FutureSuture study.
The eLearning covers the following areas:
Introduction section and quizzes
Emotional response to suturing
Woman-centred communication
Asking for support
Action plan
If you are a newly qualified or registered midwife or final year student, we would like to invite you to take part in the evaluation of the eLearning module:
FutureSuture: Supporting your clinical practice around childbirth related perineal trauma.
We also invite you to take part in interviews to share your views following the completion of the eLearning.
The eLearning package is an eLearning module hosted on the RCM iLearn site and can be accessed by logging onto the iLearn website with your RCM credentials:
iLearn login:
Click here to add your details and we will contact you once the eLearning is live!
Why take part?
We envision that taking the module will help you develop confidence and competence in perineal care, and to get the experience you need. The ongoing reflective exercises throughout the module can importantly be used for revalidation in the future.
Additionally, with your key participation, we will gather evidence that would support the shaping of national training resources in midwifery.
Participants will be entered automatically into two prize draws for £100 in shopping vouchers. The two draws will be for:
All interview participants will be provided with a £25 high street shopping voucher as a thank you for participating. See the Information Sheet for more information.
The eLearning module launches 1 April 2026
Follow this link by 15 May 2026 to access the course and take part in our study to evaluate it.
For further information, contact: FutureSutureProject@warwick.ac.uk
