‘We must work together to improve outcomes’ says RCM on Saving Babies Lives report
‘Improving maternity outcomes needs to be everyone’s business. The Government, healthcare leaders and all those working in maternity services need to work together to improve tragic outcomes’. That’s the message the from Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it responds to the Saving Babies Lives progress report. This report by Sands & Tommy’s joint policy […]
‘We must work together to improve outcomes’ says RCM on Saving Babies Lives report
‘Improving maternity outcomes needs to be everyone’s business. The Government, healthcare leaders and all those working in maternity services need to work together to improve tragic outcomes’. That’s the message the from Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it responds to the Saving Babies Lives progress report. This report by Sands & Tommy’s joint policy […]
RCM responds to the UK’s first birth trauma inquiry report
‘Putting women at the centre of their own care, listening to them, learning lessons from both failed and successful maternity services is crucial to delivering safer better care’ that’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it responds to a new report on birth trauma. The report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group […]
RCM launch ‘game changing’ set of recommendations to make midwifery education more inclusive
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has developed a first-of-its-kind toolkit to help neurodivergent midwifery students to navigate undergraduate courses. Developed alongside midwifery educators and neurodivergent midwifery students, the Neurodivergence Acceptance Toolkit is a set of comprehensive ‘must haves’ for midwifery education. Designed for everyone involved in the planning and delivery of midwifery education, it […]
RCM launches tool to tackle high levels of maternity disadvantage
“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. With a growing number of pregnant women experiencing more social complexities, the RCM has developed the MatDAT tool not […]
RCM welcomes Scottish Government’s announcement of more funding for perinatal mental health
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. Minister for Mental Health of Scotland, Maree Todd MSP, announced yesterday (2 May) that in the first phase, £85,000 will be allocated towards providing […]
‘We need to tackle bullying and harassment of NHS international recruits’ say RCM and other Unions
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. The RCM alongside, the Society of Radiographers (SOR), and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) have drawn on the poor experiences of […]
RCM welcomes NHS Wales staff and Health and Wellbeing Guide
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has welcomed the launch of a Health and Wellbeing guide for staff in NHS Wales. Supporting both the physical and mental health of staff is crucial, the RCM says, to ensuing the delivery of safe high quality maternity care for women and their families in Wales. The Best Practice […]
Scottish midwives work hundreds of unpaid extra hours to keep services safe
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 out of 10 midwives (85%) saying they have worked additional hours for no […]
Free labour to support those in labour no way to run maternity services says RCM
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 safely. A situation the College has described as ‘unsustainable’ and ‘grossly unfair’ as its members wait for a […]