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Getting out of your comfort zone
As Florence Nightingale Scholar, Joanna Keable shares her experience working with RCM the Executive Director of Professional Leadership at the RCM, Birte Harlev-Lam OBE.
Celebrating our sisters
Under this year’s theme for Black History and Culture Month - Celebrating our sisters, Saluting our sisters and Honouring matriarchs of movements – the RCM’s Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Jayne Bekoe salutes Black women and Black ...Baby Loss Awareness Week
RCM Director for Wales Julie Richards and Head of Bereavement Care & Hospital Liaison Marc Harder at the baby loss charity Sands have co-written a blog for Baby Loss Awareness Week (BLAW) 2023.
RCM and WoW calling for Entry-level Research Scholarship applications
Wellbeing of Women (WoW) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have launched this year’s call for applications for Entry-level Research Scholarships. The jointly funded programme is open to RCM midwife members and successful applicants ...
RCM calls on Government to improve maternity care for black and Asian women
Maternity care must be made safer for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) women, says a Royal College of Midwives (RCM) motion at the TUC Congress today. Highlighting that black pregnant women are eight times more likely ...A welcome shot in the arm for maternity services
Last week’s announcement of an extra £96m recurrent funding for maternity care in England provides a timely and long overdue investment in safe and high quality maternity services. Most of the new monies will be allocated to boost midwife and ...
Maternity Royal Colleges welcome extension to booster COVID-19 vaccine programme
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives have welcomed a decision by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to roll out the COVID-19 booster vaccine to all people over the ...Mounting Scottish maternity service staffing shortages spark safety fears says RCM
Understaffing, staff burnout and fears they cannot provide safe care could see many midwives heading for the exit, according to a Royal College of Midwives (RCM) survey of its members in Scotland. A staggering half of respondents say they rarely ...
Government must fix maternity staffing crisis to ensure safety RCM tells TUC Women’s Conference
The Government must fix the worsening staffing shortages in maternity services to protect the safety of care. That’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in a motion to the TUC Women’s Conference today.