By Colin Beesley on 08 September 2021
Health organisations including the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have written to Health Minister Nadine Dorries calling for an urgent confidential enquiry into the deaths of Asian and Asian British babies. This is needed to support Government ...
By Colin Beesley on 27 August 2021
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has warned that measures to reduce pressure on maternity services are putting safety at risk. In a letter to Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, Chief Midwifery Officer at NHS England, the RCM acknowledges the effectiveness ...
By Gemma Murphy on 27 August 2021
Today the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has launched a pay survey for members in England and Wales to gauge its members’ views on the recent pay settlement.
By Colin Beesley on 27 July 2021
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has said that service user and staff safety must be the top priority, following the easing of restrictions preventing NHS staff and other key workers from working if they have been close to someone with COVID-19.
By Colin Beesley on 19 July 2021
The wisdom of the bards is being used to support the wellbeing of newly qualified midwives and nurses in Scotland, who will be given a free poetry anthology when they graduate.
By Colin Beesley on 07 July 2021
Nursing aching limbs and throbbing feet nine Team RCM staff and members went up a mountain and came back down having raised over £3000 so far for the RCM’s Benevolent Fund. The team took on all 3,560 ft of Wales’s Mount Snowdon on 3 July.
By Lydia O'Neill
After four years, attending four Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Conferences and eight visits to outstanding maternity units around the country with HRH the Princess Royal, Kathryn Gutteridge formally stands down as RCM President.
on 24 June 2021
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has supported the Personalised Care Institute (PCI) to produce the first personalised care e-learning module for midwives, maternity support workers (MSW) and other maternity staff. Kathryn Gutteridge, ...
By Colin Beesley on 23 June 2021
Wellbeing of Women (WoW) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have launched this year’s call for applications for Entry-level Research Scholarships. The jointly funded programme is open to RCM midwife members and successful applicants ...
By Colin Beesley on 22 June 2021
A hardy group of nine Royal College of Midwives (RCM) staff and members have literally got a mountain to climb. They’ll shortly be heading up all 3,560 ft of Mount Snowdon, Wales’s highest mountain. They are taking on this arduous task to raise ...