Wales WPR training day (December)
Event Details Date: 3 December 2025 Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm Capacity: 20 Available spaces: 15 Registration: Open Book Now
Specialist learning reps training (June)
Event Details Date: 26 June 2025 Time: 10:30am – 4:00pm Capacity: 30 Available spaces: 19 Registration: Open Book Now
Invest to address: Eradicating inequality has to be a priority
Back in 2023 the RCM worked with a wide range of stakeholders to develop and launch its Decolonising midwifery education toolkit which aims to empower midwifery educators to challenge the legacies of colonial perspectives in all aspects of midwifery education. The toolkit is an important first step in ensuring that future midwives can practise with […]
Stewards Forum
Stewards Forum This content is for Activists The stewards forum provides an opportunity for stewards from across the UK to represent their region/country. The forum is a place to network, share experiences and information and provide a voice for activists within the RCM. Members are elected stewards from the relevant country and region as below. […]
Mission control: what do the PM’s new missions tell us about the direction of health?
Today [5 December 2024] Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Cabinet decamped to Pinewood Studios, home to James Bond and ‘Would I Lie to You?’, to launch the ‘Plan for Change’, an attempt to inject new purpose into the Government after a sometimes shaky first five months in power. Fixing the NHS is one of […]
RCM statement on barring women in Afghanistan from midwifery education
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has made no secret of its intention to remove women from civic life. Since returning to power in 2021, they have imposed more and greater restrictions on women and girls, from taking away girls’ rights to education to taking away the voices of women and girls, literally, by forbidding them […]
Who wants to be a midwife? Reversing the concerning decline in midwifery applicants
Over the past few years, there has been a worrying drop in the number of people applying to midwifery courses in the UK. In fact, applicants for 2024 are down 10% from last year and is the lowest number of applicants we’ve seen in the last six years. Alongside this, this week we received figures […]
RCM warns that reality does not meet ambition for Scottish maternity services
The Royal College of Midwives has today responded to the Auditor General’s NHS in Scotland 2024 report with caution, acknowledging the recognition from Government that prevention is key but adding that urgent action is needed to make the ambitions a reality. In general, the RCM supports the Auditor General’s report, which states the Scottish Government […]
Not once in a generation change, but a change for generations to come: RCM urges Government to be ambitious in its 10-year plan
The Royal College of Midwives has urged the Government to be ambitious for maternity care, as it submits its response to the consultation on the NHS 10-year plan. This, says the College, is an opportunity to reshape maternity services in England for the better, both for the women and families that access them and for […]
New figures show shock fall in number of UK-educated midwives joining NMC Register
New data from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has revealed a shock fall in the number of UK-educated midwives who are joining the register. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has described the decrease of 12.5% as ‘significant’, given the understaffing challenges blighting maternity services. The RCM has been warning of the impact of […]