29 June 2020
Recently I’ve been considering the challenge of defining leadership. I’m not alone in this: it’s been said that there are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are leaders!
22 July 2020
You probably saw the announcement on Tuesday by the Chancellor of public sector pay increases. This covered doctors, police, teachers and others. You might have thought what about midwives and MSWs? The announcement only covered groups covered ...
24 July 2020
A remarkable reduction in premature birth has been found in two studies. Although neither have yet been published in peer reviewed journals, the findings from Ireland and Denmark are receiving plenty of interest. The findings of both studies ...
30 July 2020
I came across Edward Monkton’s Pig of Happiness animation when I was preparing to deliver my first ever seminar on leadership and its application within midwifery. I was acutely aware that three hours of leadership theory was just not going ...
06 August 2020
When I commenced my doctorate of education, I wanted to challenge the
current resilience discourse which appeared to do more to threaten than promote it in midwives. Student midwives have to complete a demanding programme, including dealing ...
19 August 2020
The axing of Public Health England (PHE) and its replacement by a new National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) raises significant questions about the future of public health services in England.
10 August 2020
In the early hours of the morning on 4 October 2019, a woman gave birth alone in her cell at HMP Bronzefield. When prison staff reached the cell later that morning, the baby was unresponsive, and was later confirmed to have died. An investigation ...
20 August 2020
Today we have published the results of an RCM members survey which ran in June, hopefully you have seen the media release and maybe even responded to the survey! We repeated some of the questions from our Caring for You campaign survey in 2016 and ...
28 August 2020
I was introduced to Insights Discovery, a psychometric profiling tool, when I was working as a lecturer in leadership and management at Newcastle Business School. Now, I should point out that I’m generally somewhat sceptical about such tools, ...
08 September 2020
I first considered a career in midwifery at the age of 17 – but life took a different path and at 25, I was married with two daughters and living in the South West of Cornwall. After the birth of my children, my thirst for midwifery grew. Despite this ...