By RCM on 31 January 2017
The government must do more to coordinate its efforts to establish a culture of open-minded learning and investigation within the NHS in England, says the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in a report - Will the ...
By RCM on 25 January 2017
Today (Thursday, 26th January 2017) the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) have published its The State of Child Health report. The report says that a lack of strategic national focus and persistence of a wide gap between ...
By RCM on 20 January 2017
Today the Scottish Government has published its national maternity review ‘The Best Start - A Five Year Forward Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Care in Scotland’.
By RCM on 16 January 2017
RCM comments on the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) latest maternity report: Support Overdue: Women’s experience of maternity services*.
By RCM on 16 January 2017
Today the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and the NCT have published a report, saying that dangerously low staffing levels mean that half of women (50%) experience at least one red-flag event during childbirth.
By RCM on 12 January 2017
The Government has published its response to the consultation on ‘Changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Council governing legislation’. Among the changes that will happen are the removal of a statutory requirement for a NMC Midwifery Committee, ...
By RCM on 21 December 2016
Half of all new plans for the NHS across England do not mention or include very little detail about maternity services. These are the findings of new analysis published today by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), of NHS Sustainability and Transformation ...
By RCM on 19 December 2016
Applications for midwifery, nursing degrees and other allied health university courses have fallen by over twenty percent in England.
