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It was my partner’s 60th birthday last week. The events I had been planning since last year have been cancelled, changed and cancelled again! This is the reality of 2020 for all of us. Weddings, parties, holidays, conferences, visiting relatives, ...Time to deliver a decent pay rise: what we are doing and how to help
Midwives, maternity support workers (MSWs) and everyone else working in the NHS are long overdue a decent pay rise. Not only have you put in phenomenal effort in recent months to fight the greatest health crisis to hit Britain and the world in ...
How is ethnicity data collected in maternity?
There is mounting evidence about the health inequalities for people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. Data collection is the first step in understanding why these health inequalities exist. It is essential to accurately ...
Getting it right from the start: implementing Midwifery Continuity of Carer
Today’s midwifery students are tomorrow’s midwives. They will be staffing our services in the future, their experience of MCoC will shape their education, midwifery skills and philosophy, influencing the kind of midwives they aspire to ...
Denise Linay on developing maternity roles at the RCM
At the end of this month I retire after nearly 30 years working for the RCM. I must have walked through the RCM’s iconic blue door thousands of times. Last month that door was closed for the last time. As with any move there was a serious declutter ...
Being a student midwife - Fiona Howard
I first considered a career in midwifery at the age of 17 – but life took a different path and at 25, I was married with two daughters and living in the South West of Cornwall. After the birth of my children, my thirst for midwifery grew. Despite this ...Exploring leadership through the language of colour: introducing Insights Discovery
I was introduced to Insights Discovery, a psychometric profiling tool, when I was working as a lecturer in leadership and management at Newcastle Business School. Now, I should point out that I’m generally somewhat sceptical about such tools, ...
Midwives skipping breaks and working overtime
Today we have published the results of an RCM members survey which ran in June, hopefully you have seen the media release and maybe even responded to the survey! We repeated some of the questions from our Caring for You campaign survey in 2016 and ...
The future of public health in England
The axing of Public Health England (PHE) and its replacement by a new National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) raises significant questions about the future of public health services in England.