By Clea Harmer, Chief Executive, Sands on 07 June 2021
For more than 40 years Sands has worked to make sure that bereaved parents and families get the support they need and deserve, and Sands has also worked to save babies lives.
By Professor Helen Cheyne and Dr Mary Ross-Davie, co-chairs of the new Professorial Network on 28 May 2021
We are delighted today to be announcing the new RCM professorial network (PN) and hope that professors of midwifery and related subjects working in the UK will chose to join.
By Clare Livingstone, Professional Policy Advisor, RCM & Alison Morton, Executive Director, Institute of Health Visiting on 26 May 2021
Having demonstrated a significant improvement in outcomes for women and babies, providing continuity of carer along the whole ‘maternity journey’ has become a key tenet of modern midwifery policy. Additional resources are needed to implement ...
By Suzanne Tyler, Director of Services to Members on 26 May 2021
It has been a whole year since the murder of George Floyd, an event that shook many individuals and organisaitons into action against systemic racism. I don’t think any of us, regardless of who we are or where we come from, have not been disturbed ...
By Dr Jacqui Williams and Verena Wallace MBE, Senior Midwifery Advisers, NMC on 24 May 2021
Someone recently said that our approach to midwifery practice at the NMC should be to “think once, think twice, think midwife!”
With more than 39,000 midwives on our permanent register, we recognise how important it is to have a positive and ...
By Alice Sorby, Employment Relations Advisor on 20 May 2021
It’s been a whole month since I wrote my last blog on pay. In one month, we’ve seen Scotland members accept a headline offer of four per cent. We’ve seen the majority of the public call out the measly one per cent offer for England. We’ve seen celebrities ...
By Gill Walton, Chief Executive on 19 May 2021
I am going to have to come clean. I love watching Call the Midwife. I try not to watch it, but I just get hooked in again and again. I see the history of midwifery unravel before me. This week it dawned on me that the midwives are looking more nurse like ...
By Stacey Keane, Kara Davies, Dr. Tina South and Julie Roberts on 19 May 2021
Having all been a little nervous starting the programme, we were allocated to our teams and got to meet each other and we realised that we had so much in common, even though we came from different areas, both geographically and in terms of midwifery ...
By Helen Rogers, Director of RCM Wales on 14 May 2021
As with so many other initiatives, the programme went virtual in 2020. Even so, the steering group that runs it was anxious that it would not be successful, and that people might not be able to sign up to it – we were after all in the middle of a pandemic ...
By Rae Trotter, Senior Organiser Learning and Duncan Mirams, Organiser of the South on 12 May 2021
On 5 May we celebrated International Day of the Midwife (IDM), which has always been a big occasion for the RCM. IDM is our chance to celebrate the best vocation in the world, but we also get to give thanks, show appreciation and celebrate our branches ...