We cannot celebrate rising numbers of midwifery registrants while the future workforce is under threat
Fiona Gibb, the RCM’s Director of Midwifery, on why this year’s NMC registration data is a warning. Every year the NMC publishes a snapshot of who is joining, staying and leaving the professions it regulates. When I read it, I look for one thing above all else: are enough midwives coming into the profession? This year, the answer is no. The […]
Compassionate bereavement care in Wales webinar webinar
Event Details Date: 22 September 2026 Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Capacity: 100 Available spaces: 99 Registration: Closed Book Now
Redundancy and Capitalisation Explained webinar
Event Details Date: 1 September 2026 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Capacity: 100 Available spaces: 98 Registration: Open Book Now
Redundancy and Capitalisation Explained webinar
Event Details Date: 1 September 2026 Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Capacity: 100 Available spaces: 98 Registration: Open Book Now
Is the ICM Congress a Midwifery compass for maternity leaders, researchers, educators and clinical practitioners?
It is a month since we all returned to our countries following the 34th ICM congress in Lisbon, 12 -18 of June 2026. More than 3000 midwives from all over the world gathered to discuss, develop and advance the midwifery profession. Of course, there was strong representation form the United Kingdom, with more than 200 […]
Student Benefits
student member benefits You’ve got your place. Here’s what joining the RCM means from day one. Join the UK’s largest community of midwives and midwifery students, and never navigate your career alone. The RCM is the UK’s professional association and trade union run by midwives for midwives, with the unique understanding of issues you face […]
Cardiff University wins national award for making midwifery education more diverse and inclusive.
In 2023, very few of the students on Cardiff University’s midwifery programme were from the Global Majority. By 2025, they made up 15% of the cohort. That shift is the result of three years of work to broaden access to midwifery education and transform the experience of those who study it. The Cardiff University midwifery team […]
Community magazine – July 2026
RCM calls for Northern Ireland maternity strategy to be brought forward without delay
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is supporting calls for urgent action on maternity services in Northern Ireland, after Professor Mary Renfrew, author of a landmark 2024 review, said the opportunity for reform “has been missed.” Nearly two years on, with no maternity strategy in place since 2018, the RCM says mothers, babies and families […]
The RCM responds to Baroness Amos’ national maternity and neonatal review
Chief Executive Gill Walton responds to today’s publication of Baroness Amos’s national maternity and neonatal review, saying it confirms that chronic understaffing and a decade of under-investment has left midwives unable to consistently deliver safe care for women and babies. Gill said: “Behind this report are families who lost babies, who were not listened to […]