08 July 2022
It is disappointing but not surprising that the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has decided that now is the time to withdraw its COVID-19 workforce guidance in England. This will see a return to normal contractual arrangements.
26 July 2022
Trade unions are rarely out of the news at the moment. Across the public and private sector union members are saying they have had enough. Had enough of being worse off, working harder and longer and paying for a cost of living crisis that they did ...
31 July 2022
31 July 2022 marks the 120 anniversary of the 1902 Midwives Act. The Act has been credited as the first formal recognition and development of professional midwifery. Of course, midwifery is one of the world’s oldest professions long practised ...
02 August 2022
It's World Breastfeeding Week 2022 – Step Up For Breastfeeding. From 1 August, we will focus on inequalities and food security and how the cost of living crisis is biting at the finances of households across the UK. Poverty is on the increase ...
08 August 2022
It is now over four months since the Ockenden report into maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust was published. On the day of its publication, Sajid Javid, the then Health Secretary, accepted the report on behalf of ...
11 August 2022
Maternity services should be welcoming and accessible to all those who need them – and all those who work in them. Over recent months, the RCM has been developing its position on inclusion, to ensure that the language we use reflects this. This, ...
12 August 2022
The definition of the word listen is ‘to give attention to someone or something in order to hear’. So often in modern life, people listen in order that they can identify when they can speak, regardless of what is being said to them. The true art of ...
31 August 2022
Following the Government’s announcement to pause asymptomatic testing for COVID, RCM Director of Employment Relations Alice Sorby shares the RCM position along with workplace support and the employer’s legal duty to your health, safety ...
06 September 2022
Standing up for high standards, can sometimes mean speaking out on culture and practices around you, speaking truth to power and sometimes making yourself unpopular. As a member of a trade union, we know it is important for individuals to be ...
02 September 2022
The number of midwives in England's NHS is dropping, and at a quickening pace. This worrying new trend started in the summer of 2021, before which we had never before seen year-on-year falls in midwife numbers. But the drop is not happening equally ...
