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‘Positive step’ says RCM on overhaul of NHS incident reporting system
This week it is reported that an overhaul of the NHS incident reporting system will allow NHS staff, patients and families to report safety concerns instantly via their mobile phones. It will be unveiled next week at the Health Service Journal’s ...Putting women at centre of care says RCM publishing induction of labour guidance for midwives
New guidance for midwives around induction of labour (IOL) has been published today by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). The guidance has been developed by a team at the University of Nottingham.
A place of safety - midwives helping women to vote
Find out how the RCM is supporting midwives to ensure women can exercise their right to vote safely.
Royal Colleges update national guidance on COVID-19 and pregnancy
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) have today released updated national guidance to healthcare professionals about managing COVID-19 infection in pregnancy.
RCM response to Times column on COVID rules and pregnancy
In her column yesterday, Alice Thomson painted a picture that few women who have given birth over the past six months would recognise.Health, safety and escalating risk
In our own units and in our teams, we have our ways of assessing risk and improving our maternity services. However, when faced with a global pandemic we took to much larger collective ways of assessing risk, applying national guidance and we ...
Maternity under the spotlight
The past week has seen the publication of not one, but two, landmark reports into the state of maternity services in England. On Monday, the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee published a report on the safety of maternity services ...
Safe maternity care is a right for all women says RCM on prison stillbirth report
A report was published yesterday by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman into the stillbirth of a baby at HMP Styal.