05 October 2021
We are excited to announce the nominations for student midwife elections to the RCM Student Midwife Forum (SMF) open on Tuesday 5th October 2021. There are 10 seats on the forum in total; two each for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and four ...
10 December 2021
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is calling for more support for newly qualified midwives. The call comes in a letter to the UK’s four Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) from the RCM and UNISON with input from a number of other organisations.
10 November 2021
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, has announced that, from 1 April 2022, it will be compulsory for all patient-facing staff working within the NHS in England to have received both doses of the COVID vaccine. Along ...
22 December 2021
Northern Ireland’s leading health care organisations representing doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, midwives and healthcare workers are sending out a message of solidarity to their members ahead of what many expect to be the ...
16 October 2020
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is asking the government to let members decide, when they retire, which pension scheme is the most beneficial for them for their contributions between 2015 and 2022.
08 October 2020
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) launched its new research strategy during its annual conference this week, aiming to cement the importance of research to midwifery and embed it within the profession.
18 September 2020
A Royal College of Midwives (RCM) twinning project with the Bangladesh Midwifery Society (BMS) has been shortlisted in the Times Higher Education awards, often called the ‘Oscars of higher education’. The RCM and BMS are up for the International ...
01 April 2021
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has called for more investment in reproductive and sexual health services in Northern Ireland on the back of a new report published today. The report comes one year after abortion regulations came into effect ...
24 March 2021
The use of electronic record keeping in maternity must be supported with the right training for staff say the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), publishing new guidance today.
28 November 2019
Today the Health Foundation has published a report on the NHS Workforce. The reports shows how different NHS staff groups have grown in the past year. Midwives have grown in number by the smallest of any group.