on 07 November 2018
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has published new statistics on the number of nurses and midwives registered to work in the UK. The number of midwives registered to work in the UK continues to rise – with the last five years seeing a modest year ...
on 22 October 2018
Media reports today suggest that the Government may consider adopting regional pay, with public sector workers in different regions possibly being differently than their colleagues in other regions.
on 10 October 2018
Today the Care Quality Commission has published its State of Care report. On maternity the report says that nearly half all maternity and gynaecology services, and over a third of maternity services inspected under their new methodology ...
on 11 September 2018
Scotland is seeing increasing obesity levels and age of mothers in pregnancy and a big rise in midwifery vacancies. This means demands on Scottish maternity services are increasing says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Scotland in a new ...
on 11 September 2018
The number of NHS midwives in England rose by just 67 in the last year, despite universities turning out over 2,000 newly-trained staff, according to the latest State of Maternity Services Report published today by the Royal College of Midwives ...
on 09 September 2018
Today the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock announced that health and care staff will be part of a health and social care conversation, as a new national engagement exercise is launched.
By RCM on 24 May 2018
A report on NHS funding has been published today by Health Foundation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies in association with NHS Confederation. The report says that UK health spending will need to increase by £95bn by 2033/34, rising from ...
By RCM on 24 March 2018
Today the Government has announced a range of measures for England’s maternity services. Commenting on the announcement, Gill Walton, Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said: “This is very long ...
