05 December 2018
Specialist Mental Health Midwives have a crucial role in effective perinatal mental health care. However, there are currently many maternity services without this important position. This document aims to help address this gap.
05 December 2018
Birthrate Plus® is the only national tool available for calculating midwifery staffing levels. Discover how this midwifery workforce planning tool can give you assurance about quality and safety.
01 November 2018
The RCM supports the vision for maternity services set out in The Best Start: A Five-Year Forward Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Care in Scotland. The RCM is clear and consistent that translating this vision into reality requires sufficient ...
01 August 2018
For midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) particularly those working in the community this requires them to be working alone and often late at night. Lone workers are defined as those working in any situation or location without a colleague ...
01 December 2017
The RCM welcomes the opportunity to submit evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB). Our evidence this year includes recommendations around the monitoring and implementation of the multi year pay deal (2018-2019 to 2020-2021) agreed ...
01 June 2017
The MDT teams undertook a quality improvement initiative around safety, as part of the Labour ward leaders' 'working together for safe care' workshops. This poster booklet shares some of the initiatives and good practice from the teams on ...
01 April 2017
This Evaluation Report provides both a quantitative and qualitative summary of the Labour Ward Leadership pilot programme that was delivered between October and December 2016
24 September 2013
The undermining toolkit is an RCOG/Royal College of Midwives (RCM) initiative to address the challenge of undermining and bullying behaviour in maternity and gynaecology services
01 January 2010
This guide provides advice for health care professionals who want to work as humanitarian aid volunteers in emergency situations or in ongoing development work. It was jointly developed by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the Royal College ...