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• • NHS
  • NHS England
  • Midwives
  • Leadership
  • RCM CEO

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RCM welcomes appointment of first ever Chief Midwife for England

13 March 2019 The NHS has today appointed Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent as England's first Chief Midwifery Officer, a new role with responsibility for leading the development of measures aimed at increasing the quality and safety of maternity care.

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• • NMC - Nursing and Midwifery Council
  • Leadership
  • Midwifery
  • Education
  • Midwife Training

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RCM comments on NMC Future Strategy Consultation - RCM urges midwives to respond

24 July 2019 RCM comments NMC Future Strategy Consultation - RCM urges midwives to respond

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• • RCM Annual Conference
  • Leadership
  • Safety
  • Midwife Shortage
  • Specialist Midwives

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‘Worrying’ says RCM on new stats showing consultant midwife shortage

25 September 2019 The UK has a serious shortage of consultant midwives show new figures released today by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). The figures from a new survey of consultant midwives build on the results of a survey in 2016 by the RCM and the RCM Consultant ...

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• • RCM Annual Conference
  • Student midwives
  • Leadership
  • Safety
  • Midwife Shortage
  • Brexit

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Student midwife debt should ‘shame’ Government says RCM CEO in conference opening speech

24 September 2019 A call to reintroduce the bursary for student midwives came from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Chief Executive, Gill Walton in her RCM Annual Conference opening speech in Manchester today.

News

• • IDM - International Day of the Midwife
  • Leadership
  • Wales
  • RCM Wales
  • NHS Wales

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Wales Midwifery Leadership and Development Programme

14 May 2021 As with so many other initiatives, the programme went virtual in 2020. Even so, the steering group that runs it was anxious that it would not be successful, and that people might not be able to sign up to it – we were after all in the middle of a pandemic ...

News

• • Maternity Services
  • Midwifery
  • Leadership
  • Education
  • Race matters

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Mentorship scheme: paving an individual and professional pathway for Black, Asian and minority ethnic maternity staff

02 November 2021 Numerous reports over the last few decades highlight disparities experienced by midwives of Black and Asian descent, in comparison to their white counterparts. Midwives from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities are more likely ...

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• • Maternity Services
  • Midwifery
  • Leadership
  • Education
  • Race matters

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Being a mentor is more than teaching

15 November 2021 Senior Midwifery Advisor at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Jacqui Williams shares what mentorship means to her and her current experience working as a mentor on the new mentoring schemes for Black, Asian and minority ethnic colleagues. ...

RCM Opinion

• • Midwifery
  • World Health Organisation
  • Leadership
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • Scottish Government
  • Welsh Government
  • Government

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We wear red – and here’s why

23 January 2020 This year, there’s going to be a lot of red in my wardrobe – because red is the symbol we are using for World Health Organization-designated International Year of the Midwife.

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• • Midwives
  • RCM
  • Maternity Services
  • RCM Member
  • Midwifery
  • IDM - International Day of the Midwife
  • Awards
  • RCM Annual Midwifery Awards
  • Leadership

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Midwife honoured with national Leadership Award from RCM

05 May 2020 A midwife with exemplary leadership skills who has transformed her local and regional maternity services has scooped the RCM’s Leadership Award for 2020. In 2014 Patricia Ryan took up her role as Head of Midwifery at Luton and Dunstable University ...

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• • Midwives
  • RCM
  • Maternity Services
  • NHS Staff
  • Midwifery
  • NHS
  • Midwife Shortage
  • Midwifery Workforce
  • Leadership
  • Covid-19

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RCM calls for Government support to get maternity ready for business

28 April 2020 As the Government announces plans to restart and re-open discrete areas of the NHS, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has raised concerns about capacity in maternity to get services operating fully again. A survey of senior midwives across ...