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Caring for You: Refresh, rejuvenate and reinstate
Chronic staff shortages, unrelenting workloads, extended shifts, missed breaks and poor culture – work-related stress issues can have a scarring effect to overall mental and physical health. It can also seriously affect the quality and ...Standing Together – in Anger not Despair
This week I formally took over as the Executive Director for the Trade Union at the RCM. Jon Skewes, who has been a force for building the RCM into a strong and progressive trade union, able to punch above our weight with employers, policy makers ...Education and research - midwives are the pioneers for change
Last month the RCM held its first combined Education and Research conference. Members from across the UK came to take part in an excellent range of presentations, panel discussions and workshops, and to share their own knowledge and experiences ...The power of words
The language we use – whether in clinical notes or with the women and families in our care – matters. For the past few months, RCM Research Fellow Juliet Rayment has been working on a project to find a shared vocabulary around labour and birth. Here ...Job evaluation – reviewing the midwifery and nursing profiles
For over a decade, the RCM has been telling successive Health Secretaries that there is a midwifery staffing crisis. The Ockenden Review has drawn a direct correlation between staff shortages and safety shortcomings. Sean O’Sullivan, the ...Supporting Ukraine during World Health Worker Week
World Health Worker Week and World Health Day, on 7 April, provide an opportunity to celebrate frontline health workers, to elevate voices, roles, and needs while advocating for increased support for health workers worldwide. The theme set ...Time for the Government to stop ducking its responsibility on staffing
For over a decade, the RCM has been telling successive Health Secretaries that there is a midwifery staffing crisis. The Ockenden Review has drawn a direct correlation between staff shortages and safety shortcomings. Sean O’Sullivan, the ...
NICE listens to RCM view on recording of alcohol consumption
The RCM secured an important victory last week around the recording of alcohol consumption, which could have put the important relationship between pregnant women and their midwife in jeopardy. RCM Policy & Practice Advisor Lia Brigante ...Supporting women seeking care outside guidance
Putting women at the heart of care is what midwives do, day in, day out. But what if they request care outside guidance? The RCM’s Policy & Practice Advisor, Lia Brigante, introduces the new publication to support midwives.