By Joy Kemp, Global Professional Advisor
International Women’s Day is a day of unique significance to midwives as, besides providing care to women and their families, midwives are defenders of women’s rights and are at the forefront of advocacy work and social change within the fields ...
By Jaki Lambert, Director Scotland
It’s nearly four weeks since I took up the post of the Director of the RCM in Scotland and I wanted to take the time to share some reflections from my first month. In many ways I feel that I have come full circle, long before becoming a midwife I was the ...
By Alice Sorby, Employment Relations Advisor, The Royal College of Midwives
I was trying to think how to make this blog sound exciting. But it’s tricky when I’m updating you on the proposed continuation of the suspension of restrictions on return to work (or the abatement rule), introduced by the Coronavirus Act. That ...
By Fiona Gibb, Head of Education, Royal College of Midwives
The midwifery staffing crisis has become more apparent than ever. As part of the solution, there are calls to increase student midwife numbers in England with increased student numbers already evident in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland ...
By Julia Drummond, RCM Organiser – West Midlands
During HeartUnions week, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) highlights what it is to be a part of the only union and professional body run by midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) for midwives, MSWs and student midwives – through the ...
This week the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the rates of child and infant mortality in England and Wales, covering 2020 in full.
While many of us have been concerned that the major disruption to maternity services during ...
By Renée Bull on 09 February 2022
The Chair of the Student Midwife Forum (SMF) and one part of the Wales representatives, Renée Bull shares what the SMF has been up to in recent months and how it continues to advocate for and amplify the voice of student members across the UK – and ...
By Stuart Bonar, Public Affairs Advisor on 07 February 2022
Something deeply concerning is happening to the midwifery workforce in England’s NHS, and it is not something we have seen before. For the first time since records began, the number of midwives is falling year-on-year.
By Anonymous RCM member on 06 February 2022
I had so many questions about what was happening. I didn’t understand why I was being put through so much pain. Age 10, I left Somalia and went to Kenya, where we eventually got permission to come to the UK. The only two things I remember from Somalia ...
By Wendy Randall, Consultant Midwife Oxford
Share your views on impacted fetal head at caesarean section - we would like to hear from anyone involved in managing and responding to emergencies in obstetric theatres.
You are invited to complete a short survey of your views on the management ...
