By Alice Sorby, Director Employment Relations on 03 April 2023
Today (3 April) the RCM opened its pay consultation to members working in the NHS in England to find out if they accept or reject the latest pay offer made by the Westminster Government. To help you make an informed decision I want to share what the ...
By Anna Marsh, RCM member on 31 March 2023
As an 18 year old writing my university application, I always pictured my future midwife-self running clinics filled with pregnant women, storming around wards or reaching over a birth pool to help a woman bringing her new baby into the world. ...
By Heather Bower RCM Head of Midwifery Education and Sally Ashton-May, RCM Director Midwifery Policy and Practice on 20 March 2023
Last week we joined fellow RCM colleagues and RCM Chief Executive Gill Walton to attend a landmark celebration at the University of Greenwich. We were there to celebrate graduation of the first three-year midwifery degree apprentices in world, ...
By Julie Richards, Director RCM Wales on 17 March 2023
This is the first time RCM Wales had been able to host the St David’s Conference post pandemic. Our home for the day was the awe-inspiring Principality Stadium in Cardiff, a place where hopes and dreams (mostly) come to fruition and leaders are ...
By Sean O'Sullivan, Head of Health and Social Policy, RCM on 08 March 2023
RCM delegates at this week’s TUC Women’s Conference have called on our sister unions to back a campaign to ensure that maternity workforce planning is based on the needs of women, babies and families and that this should be reinforced with a national ...
By Jaki Lambert, Director Scotland on 02 March 2023
I do enjoy this time of the year. Signs of spring start to show and the small and often overlooked snowdrops are the first to burst through not giving a hoot, with resistance against the bleak Scottish winter and hope for better and brighter days. ...
By Zoe Vowles, RM, MSc, Clinical Research Midwife at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS FT/Research Assistant at NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London Maternity and Perinatal Mental Health theme and NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow on 28 February 2023
I first became interested in research after undertaking an MSc in Public Health and doing a piece of qualitative research looking at the effect of becoming a fistula advocate on women with obstetric fistula in Sierra Leone.
By Suzanne Tyler RCM Executive Director, Trade Union on 23 February 2023
Seven maternity units across England in three-and-a-half days – tertiary units, mid-sized units, relatively new builds and some real vintage estates. Everywhere I went, midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) continue to put women ...
By Suzanne Tyler RCM Executive Director, Trade Union on 14 February 2023
Almost seven million workers in the UK belong to trades unions and together we stand for something very simple: making the working lives of our members better. For the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) that means working to ensure every midwife, ...
By Rachel Housego, RM, MPH, Lecturer in midwifery at the University of Suffolk on 30 January 2023
With hindsight, I can appreciate the value research has on my professional development and my clinical practice. I started my master’s programme with King’s College London with the aim of furthering my knowledge in public health and this is ...