Race to lunch: Understanding the importance of cultural competencies in the workplace
Joint RCM/SANDs conference 2025
Pregnant in exile: asylum seeking women’s experiences of maternity care
RCM Essentials
RCM Essentials RCM activists can access promotional or campaign materials by logging into their ‘RCM Essentials’ account Credits are allocated on a pro-rata basis over the year. Items purchased should be used when holding a learning event, recruitment event, maintaining your RCM noticeboard or other branch activity. This content is for Activists RCM Essentials log in […]
Discussing the RSV vaccine and other vaccinations during pregnancy
As new data is published on the uptake of the RSV vaccine among pregnant women, Clare Livingstone the RCM’s Professional Advisor for Policy and Public Health looks at the role midwives are playing in the rollout of this vaccine Midwives play a vital role in public health, providing care for women, their babies and families. When it comes […]
RCM publishes results of pay consultation with members in Northern Ireland
Midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) working in the HSC in Northern Ireland have had their say on the overdue 5.5% pay award announced in December. Following a two-week consultation the RCM says 76 percent of its members who voted said the 2024/25 award is acceptable as a step towards addressing the long term pay cuts […]
International day of the midwife
International day of the midwife How will you be celebrating IDM 2025? IDM takes place on 5 May and is an occasion for every midwife to think about the many others in the profession, to make new contacts within and outside midwifery, and to widen the knowledge of what midwives do for the world. The […]
RCM Scotland calls for ‘a significant’ pay increase for its members
Today RCM Scotland has called for ‘a significant and above inflation’ pay increase that reflects the true cost of living in Scotland in its pay claim for the 2025/26 pay round. The joint unions’ pay claim was submitted by the Scottish Terms and Conditions Committee (STAC), of which the RCM is a member. It has […]
Campaign to improve pay for RCM members continues
Members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) were in London this week giving oral evidence about the lived experience of midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) to the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB). They were joined by RCM staff who also urged the PRB to consider the bigger picture when it comes to pay […]