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 […]
Together we stand for maternity services: a glimpse into the current crisis
By Suzanne Tyler RCM Executive Director, Trade Union on 23 February 2023 Maternity Services RCM Trade Unions TUC Seven maternity units across England in three-and-a-half days – tertiary units, mid-sized units, relatively new builds and some real vintage estates. Everywhere I went, midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) continue to put women first and pull […]
Heart Unions: an opportunity to celebrate and connect
By Suzanne Tyler RCM Executive Director, Trade Union on 14 February 2023 Maternity Services RCM Trade Unions Wales Pay and Agenda For Change Welsh Government Almost seven million workers in the UK belong to trades unions and together we stand for something very simple: making the working lives of our members better. For the Royal […]
Take home a Small Research Award
By Jenny Cunningham and Judith Field, RCM Research Advisors on 16 January 2023 Maternity Services Research Student midwives Awards Education Research is a fundamental part of the midwife’s role, and we want to support members embarking on their research journey. To help midwives in exploring the research pathway, the RCM has created a new award […]