RCM celebrates Pride 2024

Throughout the summer local Pride events like parades, festivals and community celebrations are an opportunity for the LGBT+ community and their allies to come together, be visible and celebrate LGBT+ identity, culture and history. This year RCM staff, reps and members are attending a number of Pride celebrations across the UK. As a trade union, […]

Can you help us challenge election candidates on maternity issues?

Did you see the clip of Foreign Secretary and former Prime Minister Lord Cameron speaking into the camera of a voter’s video doorbell, urging them to back the candidate he was out campaigning with? It summed up pretty well how election campaigns are the great humbler. For a few weeks every few years, those accustomed to holding […]

General Election 2024 — where do things stand in this election campaign?

The UK general election campaign is now well underway, even if we are still less than halfway through it, and the RCM is off to a flying start in putting your interests front and centre. We are pitching to candidates and the parties the ideas we know would deliver big improvements in maternity services. You […]

MIDIRS Monthly – My PHD Journey

By Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe on 29 May 2024 I worked as a clinical midwife for over twenty-five years, I qualified as a registered nurse and a midwife and soon after this completed a BSc in Health studies. My intention when I qualified as a midwife did not include working in education or research. I worked in […]

MIDIRS Monthly – My PHD Journey

I worked as a clinical midwife for over twenty-five years, I qualified as a registered nurse and a midwife and soon after this completed a BSc in Health studies. My intention when I qualified as a midwife did not include working in education or research. I worked in numerous settings as a community midwife, labour […]

Empowering Migrant Women: Midwives and NHS Policy Reform

Migrant and asylum seeking women affected by NHS charging are disproportionately likely to be from Black or marginalised ethnic groups.  Additionally, we know the health outcomes for these women and their babies are significantly worse, particularly for Black African and Caribbean women, than those for white British women.  This has been demonstrated repeatedly through MBRRACE […]

Let’s talk about ending sexual harassment: insights from Jayne Bekoe, Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at the RCM

Jayne Bekoe, Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at the RCM talks about her work with the TUC to stamp out sexual harassment and why everyone needs to fill in the TUC survey on sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment at work is illegal and awful for the person experiencing it. No one should […]

Midwifery, a Masters and Multi-Chained viruses. A reflection of survival

Introduction Studying a Master’s and working part time can be stressful, I no longer need a reference to know that (Ryff and singer, 2003). Do a Master’s she said, that will be a good idea, she said. You want out of the NHS, but you love safeguarding. Well, how about this then. Our course started […]

MIDIRS Monthly – How did you come to be a Midwife lecturer?

When asked the question, “How did you come to be a Midwife Lecturer?”, this is always how the conversation starts: At 18 years old when trying to decide on my choice of career, I had a realisation that I could be a Midwife and dabble in teaching but I couldn’t be a Teacher and dabble […]

Speaking up for women’s rights in the workplace

By RCM steward in the Grampian Branch Susan Dewar on 06 December 2023 RCM UK Research Safety Women Staffing Levels RCM steward in the Grampian Branch Susan Dewar shares her experience of speaking at the Scotland TUC (STUC) Women’s Conference on the importance of hydration in health, safety and wellbeing for the female workforce. I […]