13-05-2025
‘Stereotypes around the way we see black women can be very damaging': NI's first cultural liaison midwife
Improvements need to be made in the provision of safe, accessible maternity care for women from ethnic minority backgrounds, a leading Northern Irish midwife has said.
Debbie Garland, a cultural liaison midwife with the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, said while steps had been taken to ensure women from black and Asian communities felt secure, empowered and listened to during pregnancy and childbirth, there was still much to be learned.
