Media releases

Media releases

• • NHS
  • RCOG - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Sands
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  • RCOG
  • Public Health
  • Women
  • Pregnancy
  • Good Health
  • Healthcare Professionals

Influencing

Cuts to local public health budgets will widen health inequalities warn leading women’s health organisations

on 12 August 2021 A partnership of leading women’s health organisations has called on a county council to rethink its plan to cut £2.09 million per year from its public health budget. In a letter to Hampshire County Council (HCC), the One Voice Partnership, ...

Media releases

• • RCM
  • NHS Staff
  • NHS
  • Good Health
  • Public Health
  • Postnatal Care

Influencing

Recipe for poorer not better child health says RCM on iHV report

on 20 February 2020 The Royal College of Midwives is calling for investment in midwives and other staff supporting better child health. The call comes as the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) publishes the findings of their annual survey of health visitors in ...

Media releases

• • Obesity
  • Pregnancy
  • Midwives
  • BMJ Study - British Medical Journal
  • Advice
  • Good Health

Influencing

We must ensure women can access the right services to support a healthy lifestyle says RCM on new BMJ study

By RCM on 05 July 2018 ‘Children of mothers who follow a healthy lifestyle have a substantially lower risk of developing obesity than children of mothers who don’t make healthy lifestyle choices’ that’s according to a new study published in the British Medical ...

Media releases

• • Advice
  • Pregnancy
  • Obesity
  • Midwives
  • CMO - Chief Medical Officer
  • Good Health
  • Expectant Mothers

Promoting

‘Midwives welcome new CMO advice on physical activity for expectant mothers’

By RCM on 29 June 2017 Today (Thursday June 29th) the UK’s Chief Medical Officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have released new advice on physical activity for expectant mothers.

Media releases

• • Student midwives
  • Bursaries and Scholarships
  • Midwives
  • Nurses
  • Good Health
  • Midwife Shortage
  • Midwifery and nursing degree
  • RCM

Influencing

‘We warned you’ says RCM on shortfall in applications for midwifery degrees

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.

Media releases

• • RCM
  • Pregnancy
  • Kellogg's All Bran
  • Good Health

Influencing

‘RCM announces alliance partnership with Kellogg’s All-Bran’ 

By RCM on 23 November 2016 Kellogg’s All-Bran has joined The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Alliance Programme.