Equitable bereavement care: culturally responsive midwifery in perinatal loss
Event Details Date: 24 September 2025 Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm Capacity: 150 Available spaces: 150 Registration: Open Book Now
RCM Launches new Research and Development Strategy for 2025–2027
Research can sometimes feel like a foreign country, but it underpins everything that we, as midwives and maternity support workers, do as part of our everyday role. Research underpins good maternity care – understanding and reducing inequalities, improving outcomes, even improving the way we work as part of multidisciplinary teams, all rely on research. If […]
UKMCS Midwives’ symposium 2025
Event Details Date: 2 October 2025 Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm Capacity: 400 Available spaces: 400 Registration: Open Book Now
RCM calls for clearer guidance and better support around fetal movement following SANDS research
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is calling for renewed focus on how concerns about baby movements during pregnancy are addressed in maternity care, in response to the publication of a learning report led by baby loss charity SANDS and King’s College London. The project sought to understand the challenges in sharing information and guidance about baby movements and what needs to […]
Quality and Standards
Quality and Standards Quality and standards refer to the principles, practices and guidelines that ensure the care provided to women and birthing people, and their babies is safe, effective, and of the highest possible standard. The quality of midwifery care reflects the overall effectiveness of the care provided and is based on the principles that […]
Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth programme pilot concludes successfully
A pilot of the Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth (ABC) programme, delivered by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives and The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute at the University of Cambridge, has successfully concluded. Avoidable brain injury acquired during labour (intrapartum care) can have devastating consequences for babies and their […]
RCM Cymru says new report must be used as ‘an opportunity to drive meaningful change’
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Wales has renewed its call for urgent, system-wide change, following the publication of the Llais report into maternity experiences in Swansea Bay. The report highlights recurring and deeply concerning themes, including variation in care, communication issues, inconsistent postnatal support and barriers to raising concerns. These mirror the findings […]
RCM members in Scotland vote to accept pay offer
Midwives and maternity care assistants (MCAs) working in the NHS in Scotland have voted to accept a two year pay offer of just over 8%. The RCM’s three-week consultation with its members resulted in 80.1% of respondents voting to accept the offer, with the RCM saying it was ‘a step towards addressing long term pay […]
New perinatal mortality inequalities MBRRACE-UK figures of deep concern, says RCM
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has expressed deep concerns about growing inequalities in care outcomes, as revealed in the latest MBRRACE-UK perinatal mortality surveillance report. While the annual report, which tracks deaths of babies before and shortly after birth, shows that the UK’s overall perinatal mortality rate has continued to decline, neonatal mortality in the most […]
RCM says perinatal mental health should be everyone’s business as it marks World Maternal Mental Health Day
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has today called for urgent investment in perinatal mental health support as part of events for World Maternal Mental Health Day (7 May). Low mood and poor mental health affect many people, but during the perinatal period women can be particularly vulnerable. Pregnancy is often portrayed as a time […]