Show me the money: the missing link in NHS England’s single delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services
By Sean O’Sullivan, Head of Health & Social Policy, RCM on 13 April 2023 Maternity Services RCM UK Midwives Midwifery Workforce The much-trailed three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services was finally published at the end of last month (30 March) by NHS England. The plan is intended to provide support to services in […]
Numberjacks: New calculations reveal growing midwife shortage
By Stuart Bona, Public Affairs Advisor on 05 April 2023 Maternity Services RCM UK Education Midwives Midwifery Workforce MSWs – Maternity Support Workers England Pay and Agenda For Change Government NHS Pay Review Body NHS England Politics The RCM’s Public Affairs Advisor, Stuart Bonar, explains how the midwife shortage in England is getting bigger, rather […]
Progress needs to be at pace, but not a snail’s pace
By Abbie Aplin, RCM Director Maternity Reform on 04 April 2023 Maternity Services RCM UK Education Midwives Midwifery Workforce MSWs – Maternity Support Workers England Pay and Agenda For Change Government NHS Pay Review Body NHS England Politics As another report details failings in maternity care, Abbie Aplin, the RCM’s Director for Maternity Reform, outlines […]
Pay in England: what the offer means for you
By Alice Sorby, Director Employment Relations on 03 April 2023 Maternity Services RCM UK Education Midwives Midwifery Workforce MSWs – Maternity Support Workers England Pay and Agenda For Change Government NHS Pay Review Body NHS England Politics Today (3 April) the RCM opened its pay consultation to members working in the NHS in England to […]
Midwifery apprentices: celebrating the first of many
By Heather Bower RCM Head of Midwifery Education and Sally Ashton-May, RCM Director Midwifery Policy and Practice on 20 March 2023 Maternity Services RCM UK Education Apprenticeships Midwives Midwifery Workforce NHS England MSWs – Maternity Support Workers Last week we joined fellow RCM colleagues and RCM Chief Executive Gill Walton to attend a landmark celebration […]
St David’s Day: inspiring members in Wales
By Julie Richards, Director RCM Wales on 17 March 2023 Maternity Services RCM UK Education Midwives Midwifery Workforce MSWs – Maternity Support Workers NHS Wales RCM Wales Welsh Government This is the first time RCM Wales had been able to host the St David’s Conference post pandemic. Our home for the day was the awe-inspiring […]
Staff shortages adversely impacts quality of care and staff wellbeing
By Sean O’Sullivan, Head of Health and Social Policy, RCM on 08 March 2023 Maternity Services RCM Research Staffing Levels Trade Unions UK Women Maternity Safety RCM delegates at this week’s TUC Women’s Conference have called on our sister unions to back a campaign to ensure that maternity workforce planning is based on the needs […]
International Women’s Day 2023
By Joy Kemp, Global Professional Advisor, The Royal College of Midwives on 08 March 2023 International Women’s Day (8 March) has been observed by the United Nations since 1975. It is an opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements, to support them and lift them up and to call for action to accelerate women’s equality. As […]
Have your say on the Scotland pay offer
By Jaki Lambert, Director Scotland on 02 March 2023 Maternity Services RCM Trade Unions TUC I do enjoy this time of the year. Signs of spring start to show and the small and often overlooked snowdrops are the first to burst through not giving a hoot, with resistance against the bleak Scottish winter and hope […]
My journey into maternity research
By Zoe Vowles, RM, MSc, Clinical Research Midwife at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS FT/Research Assistant at NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London Maternity and Perinatal Mental Health theme and NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow on 28 February 2023 Maternity Services RCM Research Perinatal Mental Health I first became interested in research after undertaking an […]