On joining the NMC register the expectation is that registrants maintain their knowledge in order to promote safe and effective practice (NMC 2018).  Yet once midwives join the workforce, engagement with academic literature and research decreases significantly.  A local journal club was created to encourage midwives to participate in discussion, facilitated by a guest speaker, around a subject that was felt to be meaningful to the staff at the time. With interest from other Health Boards the All Wales Midwives Journal Club came about.