Mentor update and support: what do mentors need from an update?

Mentorship: is the fourteenth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. It aims to
provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on student learning
and ultimately on women’s experience and encourage midwives to seek further information through
a series of activities. In this seventh article Mari Phillips and Joyce Marshall consider some of the key
issues related to mentor update and support and consider what mentors need from their annual
update.