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RCM champions better support for workplace stress in new guidance
As numerous surveys continue to highlight how stressed midwives and maternity support workers (MSW) are in the workplace, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), has published new guidance to help its members recognise and manage their own stress.'Midwives are the only registered professionals that can provide midwifery care and cannot be replaced by nurses’ says RCM
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has expressed its deep concern about the growing trend of deploying nurses in maternity services. There is a UK-wide shortage of midwives that has led to alternative sources for the maternity workforce being ...
RCM Chief Exec calls out Government for starving the NHS of resources
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has criticised the Government for its latest derisory pay offer, stating that ‘they are not on the side of working people.’‘Fix crisis in midwifery staffing now’ says the RCM
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has called on the Scottish Government to take urgent action on the midwifery staffing crisis.
Entries for the RCM Awards 2023 are open!
The RCM Awards have been celebrating and rewarding outstanding achievements within the midwifery profession since 2004. The entry deadline for this year’s Awards is 31 January 2023. The 15 categories open for entry this year are:
Supporting activists to reach more members in RCM pay ballot
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is using the power of peer-to-peer communication to enable its workplace reps and pay activists to engage members in the upcoming England and Wales pay ballot opening on 11 November.
Become a member of the Student Midwife Forum
We are excited to announce the nominations for student midwife elections to the RCM Student Midwife Forum (SMF) open on Monday 10th October 2022. There are 14 seats on the forum in total; two each for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and eight ...
RCM announces date it will ballot members in England and Wales on industrial action
The RCM is urging all members working in the NHS in England and Wales to vote yes to industrial action over pay as it announces the date its official ballot will open. After members in both countries overwhelmingly rejected their governments’ ...
RCM recommends members vote YES to industrial action as ballot opens in Scotland
‘Stand by and get ready to vote on industrial action’ that’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Scotland as it formally launches its ballot on industrial action today. The RCM is recommending that members vote yes to both ...