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01 February 2019

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Standing up for higher standards

01 February 2019 Standing up for higher standards

• • Safety
  • Maternity Services
  • MBRRACE

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Safety and Quality Improvement

14 December 2018 The Quality & Standards Team is involved with a number of national initiatives within maternity services, with the overall ambition of improving the safety of the service

Media releases

• • Safety

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RCM comment on Invited Review of Maternity Services at Cwm Taf Health Board

30 April 2019 Today the Welsh Government has published a report on the Invited ‘Review of Maternity Services at Cwm Taf Health Board’. This morning The Welsh Cabinet Secretary also announced that the Health Board will be put in special measures.

News

• • Research
  • Safety

Influencing

Research reveals risk of incorrect seat belt use

10 May 2018 Nearly half of pregnant women put their unborn babies at risk due to wearing seat belts wrongly, finds research.

Media releases

• • Safety
  • Postnatal Care

‘Important’ mothers and babies get the care and support needed says RCM on health visitor report

10 October 2019 Today the Institute of Health Visiting (IHV) has ‘Health Visiting in England: A Vision for the Future’, their evidence-based blueprint to rebuild health visiting services. Commenting, Gill Walton, Chief Executive of the Royal College of ...

News

• • Maternity Services
  • Safety

Promoting

Starting with ABC: working together to avoid brain injury in childbirth

05 July 2021 How many parents-to-be, when asked about the sex of their baby, answer “we don’t mind as long as it’s healthy”? That’s their hope and the expectation, and indeed, that’s the outcome for the vast majority of parents. Sadly for some, though, complications ...

News

• • Midwives
  • Safety

Promoting

Calling for views on impacted fetal head at caesarean section

04 February 2022 Share your views on impacted fetal head at caesarean section - we would like to hear from anyone involved in managing and responding to emergencies in obstetric theatres. You are invited to complete a short survey of your views on the management ...

News

• • coronavirus
  • Safety

Promoting

New app logs encounters with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 maternity cases

22 April 2020 We’re supporting the new app obsCOVID.org that works as a logbook to track your interactions with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases in your care and can track your own developments of the symptoms.

News

• • RCM Annual Conference
  • Safety
  • NHS

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Safety expert says ‘linear’ approach is not working

04 October 2018 Leading safety expert Dr Suzette Woodward delivered a compelling message to delegates from the RCM conference stage in Manchester, telling them ‘we need to take the blame out of failure.’