18 May 2020
As the UK focusses on emotional wellbeing during Mental Health Awareness Week, midwives say their mental health is being adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) shows over half (57 per cent) ...
08 May 2020
Maternity teams increasing the use of prenatal breastmilk, improving outcomes for BAME and vulnerable women and enhancing bereavement care, are among the winners of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) annual awards announced this week. ...
29 May 2020
NHS trusts should do the right thing and pay staff overtime for all extra work during the pandemic, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) on joint health union and employer’s guidance on overtime published today.
21 July 2020
The Royal College of Midwives is calling on the Government to bring forward pay talks and to give midwives and other NHS staff a substantial pay increase. The call follows today’s announcement of public sector pay rises that do not include midwives, ...
15 July 2020
“A timely reflection on the value of maternity support workers (MSWs)”. That is the Royal College of Midwives’ (RCM) reaction to the launch of Health Education England’s £1 million fund for MSW education and training, something the RCM has ...
28 August 2020
Give us an early pay deal – and don’t defund other services to pay for it. That’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it moves to step up its pay campaign today.
12 November 2020
Maternity support workers (MSW) should be paid fairly for the work they are doing, their trade union, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), has said ahead of national MSW Week, which starts on 16 November.
05 February 2021
Men have a crucial role to play in ending female genital mutilation (FGM) say campaigners launching the latest in a series of short animations amplifying the voices of men about FGM. The animations come during the week leading up to International ...
06 December 2021
My midwifery career began more than 21 years ago when I started working clinically as a staff midwife at a large hospital in the East of England. That hospital is now an even larger teaching hospital with a tertiary level NICU, a busy and demanding ...
29 November 2021
Pregnancy is a time of heightened vulnerability to domestic abuse, not because it is necessarily more prevalent, but because it may start or become more severe antenatally.