05 November 2023
Like the rest of the world, the RCM is deeply saddened by the escalating situation in Israel and Gaza. Midwives and other healthcare workers continue to work tirelessly to support women and children, who yet again have become the victims of a ...
22 November 2023
The RCM’s first standalone student midwife conference took place in Doncaster this week, with students from all over the UK in attendance.
06 December 2023
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Scotland has called for all IT systems in Scotland’s NHS to be made neurodiverse friendly. The call comes as the RCM’s attended the STUC Disabled Workers Conference this week.
12 January 2023
Yesterday's report published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) highlights the desperate need to recruit and retain more midwives and should be a wakeup call to the Government, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).
30 November 2023
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has warned the Government that now is not the time for complacency in tackling the chronic shortage of midwives in England. While new figures published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) show more ...
14 December 2023
The highest stillbirth rates continue to impact black and Asian women and those
living in the most deprived communities where social inequalities are entrenched. That’s according to the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it responds to the ...
30 October 2020
The RCM has called for an end to the discrimination and racism that blights the lives of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) NHS staff and women using maternity services ,responding to the Turning the Tide report, published with the support ...
23 March 2021
Today the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) led a delegation, including a midwife and a maternity support worker, to give evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) about how 10 years of pay restraint has impacted them and their maternity colleagues ...
08 September 2021
Health organisations including the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have written to Health Minister Nadine Dorries calling for an urgent confidential enquiry into the deaths of Asian and Asian British babies. This is needed to support Government ...
13 September 2021
Safe maternity care can only be achieved if we get the long-term maternity workforce planning right, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). It comes as the RCM submitted its response to a Health Education England (HEE) workforce Call for ...