03 March 2021
Budgets are about choices and priorities. Rishi Sunak could have chosen today’s Budget to outline an ambitious and far-reaching plan to stimulate economic recovery, reward key workers and rebuild our public services. Surely now was the time ...
09 March 2021
NHS pay was thrust into the spotlight in the most unwelcome way late last week as the Government published its evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) - over six weeks late and several percentage points light. Any goodwill midwives and MSWs may ...
03 May 2021
At 7am on Thursday 6 May, polling stations across England, Scotland and Wales will open their doors for 15 hours so that up to 48 million people can cast their votes in a whole host of elections.
07 February 2020
Every new year feels like a beginning, but there’s something about a new decade that feels like a fresh start. A new decade has a way of making us look to the future, rather than reflect on the past, and that is certainly how 2020 has felt so far. Obviously, ...
29 August 2019
On Wednesday morning the Prime Minister announced that Parliament would soon be prorogued (political jargon for “shut down”) for five weeks from the week of 9th September until 14th October. By lunchtime the Queen had agreed, and the paperwork ...
21 October 2020
Midwives, maternity support workers (MSWs) and everyone else working in the NHS are long overdue a decent pay rise. Not only have you put in phenomenal effort in recent months to fight the greatest health crisis to hit Britain and the world in ...
28 April 2021
On 6 May, voters across Britain will choose who will make decisions affecting their lives in a patchwork of elections for councillors, mayors, police and crime commissioners, as well as members of both the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments.
30 April 2021
On 6 May, voters in Scotland will choose who gets to sit in the Scottish Parliament for the next five years. That outcome will also determine who forms the next Scottish Government, which since 1999 has been responsible for the NHS in Scotland.
24 September 2021
After a one-year gap because of you-know-what, this autumn sees the return of in-person party conferences. Gone are the speeches delivered over Zoom and calls of “you’re on mute” when someone tries to ask a question; back are lanyard-wearing ...
23 September 2022
Before disappearing off to their party conferences, politicians have been back at Westminster for a couple of days, frantically making announcements in the little time they have. RCM Public Affairs Advisor Stuart Bonar shares what recent ...