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Celebrating midwifery: time to reset?
Fiona Gibb, Royal College of Midwives’ (RCM) Director Professional Midwifery, shares ways that midwives can reclaim and promote our professional identity, with emphasis on education, research, leadership and growing a supportive, collaborative ...
IDM: what it means to be a midwife
As we come together to celebrate International Day of the Midwife, RCM Chief Executive Gill Walton CBE reflects on what it means to be a midwife – and why it matters.
Wales Midwifery Leadership and Development Programme
As with so many other initiatives, the programme went virtual in 2020. Even so, the steering group that runs it was anxious that it would not be successful, and that people might not be able to sign up to it – we were after all in the middle of a pandemic ...IDM 2021 – it’s in everything we do
On 5 May we celebrated International Day of the Midwife (IDM), which has always been a big occasion for the RCM. IDM is our chance to celebrate the best vocation in the world, but we also get to give thanks, show appreciation and celebrate our branches ...
IDM 2021: keeping midwifery on the global agenda
Dear midwives, colleagues and friends, Happy International Day of the Midwife! Today we will once again put midwifery and women's sexual reproductive health and rights on the global agenda.
Follow the data in maternity care
Today marks International Day of the Midwife and this year’s theme is Follow the data: invest in midwives. We know maternity data is imperative to the care we provide. Not only is it important to call for more investment from the Government to ...