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Being seen, being heard: Improving maternity care for black women
There is a disparity in the care given and received by black women. It’s there because there is a lack of trust between black women, healthcare services and the Government. Running The Motherhood Group, a platform where black and ethnic minority ...Latest on pensions
The Government has published their response to the NHS pension scheme consultation that closed on 11 October 2020. The consultation was to decide how to correct the discrimination that has been identified in the McCloud Judgement and came ...Court rejects Maternity Action legal challenge to NHS charging
In 2016, the UK Government asked the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to investigate the nature and prevalence of pregnancy and maternity discrimination in Britain.
New Health and Care Visa includes midwives
Yesterday (13 July), the Home Office published details of the new points-based immigration system, which includes midwifery as one of the professions to qualify for the Health and Care Visa.
Buckinghamshire midwife awarded national honour
A Bucks midwife has received a prestigious Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Fellowship for her inspiring midwifery work. Sally Pezaro is a Lecturer and Associate Researcher at Coventry University and received the award at the RCM’s virtual ...A missed opportunity
Budgets are about choices and priorities. Rishi Sunak could have chosen today’s Budget to outline an ambitious and far-reaching plan to stimulate economic recovery, reward key workers and rebuild our public services. Surely now was the time ...RCM calls for new maternity strategy for Northern Ireland
Research forms the basis of evidence-based practice and it is important that within midwifery we continue to question why things are done the way they are in order to improve upon current standards.Wellbeing champions in Wales
Having all been a little nervous starting the programme, we were allocated to our teams and got to meet each other and we realised that we had so much in common, even though we came from different areas, both geographically and in terms of midwifery ...