31 March 2023
As an 18 year old writing my university application, I always pictured my future midwife-self running clinics filled with pregnant women, storming around wards or reaching over a birth pool to help a woman bringing her new baby into the world. ...
13 April 2023
The much-trailed three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services was finally published at the end of last month (30 March) by NHS England. The plan is intended to provide support to services in achieving safer, more personalised, ...
27 April 2023
Jackie Ballie, Member of the Scottish Parliament, writes for the RCM on the importance of good midwifery care and need for investment in Scottish maternity services ahead of RCM reception at Scottish Parliament.
18 April 2023
I write these lines on the train while on my way to University. I am Veronica, and I am a registered nurse and midwife. I am currently undertaking a full-time PhD at the University of Bristol, and at the time of writing for this blog, it has been more ...
23 May 2023
To coincide with the launch of the RCM position statement on reconfigurations, RCM Policy Advisor Tara Kaufmann shares what reconfiguration of services will mean for maternity staff and how to be consulted and have a stake in the changes.
25 May 2023
With the publication of the England Chief Midwifery Officer’s maternity research strategy, MIDIRS, Head of Midwifery Information and Resource Services, Dr Sara Webb welcomes the framework as a first step to improving research in midwifery ...
02 June 2023
RCM competition winner Susan Hughes shares what being a midwife means to her as she looks forward to attending this year's International Congress for Midwives and what she hopes to take away from the experience.
12 June 2023
RCM competition winner Megan Critchlow shares what being a student midwife means to her as she looks forward to attending this year's International Congress for Midwives and what she hopes to take away from the experience.
26 January 2024
When you work in maternity services, people would understandably expect your workplace to be the one of the most supportive around all things pregnancy and breastfeeding. Yet a recent RCM survey of health and safety reps found this to be very ...
14 May 2024
‘Improving maternity outcomes needs to be everyone’s business. The Government, healthcare leaders and all those working in maternity services need to work together to improve tragic outcomes’. That’s the message the from Royal College ...