22 March 2024
Midwife and maternity support worker members of the Royal College of Midwives have voted to accept the pay offer made by the Northern Ireland Department of Health. A consultation of members closed on Wednesday, with 86.3% voting to accept.
22 March 2024
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has launched a Research Prioritisation Project to understand what the top 10 future areas of maternity research should be and want to hear from global majority community about what should be on the final list.
12 March 2024
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has called on local commissioners to rethink plans to close vital maternity and neonatal services at the Royal Free Hospital or the Whittington Hospital in North London. Under the current plans, one of the ...
10 April 2024
Findings published by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have revealed that during one week in March midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) in England, Scotland and Wales worked 136,834 extra unpaid hours to keep services running ...
10 April 2024
Midwives in Wales are working hundreds of extra unpaid hours to keep maternity services running safely. Results of a poll published by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have revealed more than eight out of 10 (83%) midwives have worked extra ...
10 April 2024
Midwives in Scotland are working hundreds of extra hours without pay to keep maternity services running safely. The results of a new poll published today by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have laid bare the extent of the problem with nine ...
26 April 2024
International recruits to the NHS are being bullied, harassed and discriminated against, say the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), as they publish new guidance for recruiting midwives and health professionals to the UK.
03 May 2024
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) warmly welcomes the announcement by the Scottish Government that they will provide additional funding to improve perinatal mental health services in the north of Scotland.
08 May 2024
The head of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has pledged to start a revolution in maternity care. Gill Walton, Chief Executive of the RCM, made an impassioned plea at the RCM’s national conference to midwives and maternity support workers ...
08 May 2024
"Addressing not only health and wellbeing, but social complexity is key to improving maternity outcomes for all women,” says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it launches a Maternity Disadvantage Assessment Tool (MatDAT) for midwives.