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Time for the Government to stop ducking its responsibility on staffing
For over a decade, the RCM has been telling successive Health Secretaries that there is a midwifery staffing crisis. The Ockenden Review has drawn a direct correlation between staff shortages and safety shortcomings. Sean O’Sullivan, the ...Job evaluation – reviewing the midwifery and nursing profiles
For over a decade, the RCM has been telling successive Health Secretaries that there is a midwifery staffing crisis. The Ockenden Review has drawn a direct correlation between staff shortages and safety shortcomings. Sean O’Sullivan, the ...Supporting Ukraine during World Health Worker Week
World Health Worker Week and World Health Day, on 7 April, provide an opportunity to celebrate frontline health workers, to elevate voices, roles, and needs while advocating for increased support for health workers worldwide. The theme set ...The power of words
The language we use – whether in clinical notes or with the women and families in our care – matters. For the past few months, RCM Research Fellow Juliet Rayment has been working on a project to find a shared vocabulary around labour and birth. Here ...
World Breastfeeding Week: step up for breastfeeding
It's World Breastfeeding Week 2022 – Step Up For Breastfeeding. From 1 August, we will focus on inequalities and food security and how the cost of living crisis is biting at the finances of households across the UK. Poverty is on the increase ...
Ockenden: what next?
It is now over four months since the Ockenden report into maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust was published. On the day of its publication, Sajid Javid, the then Health Secretary, accepted the report on behalf of ...Listening to midwives, listening to women
The definition of the word listen is ‘to give attention to someone or something in order to hear’. So often in modern life, people listen in order that they can identify when they can speak, regardless of what is being said to them. The true art of ...
Royal visit for Grampian maternity unit from RCM Patron HRH The Princess Royal
Inverurie’s Community Maternity Unit (ICMU) was treated to a Royal visit at the weekend from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Patron, HRH The Princess Royal. The Princess Royal toured the unit meeting midwives, healthcare support ...Some sensible proposals for reforming the health and care system in White Paper
Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary in England, yesterday (Thursday 11 February) launched a White Paper outlining proposals for the further integration of health and care services, the removal of bureaucratic rules and processes and the ...