Kent midwife heads to Bangladesh on midwifery project

on 08 November 2018 Global midwifery

A midwife from Sidcup is traveling to Bangladesh as a volunteer in a Royal College of Midwives (RCM) project to support midwifery in Bangladesh.  Sarah Gregson is a midwife at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in Kent.

The RCM project in Bangladesh twins the RCM with Bangladesh’s midwifery association. It aims to strengthen the Bangladesh Midwifery Society, the country’s midwifery association to strengthen the midwifery profession and raise the profile of midwifery services and care in Bangladesh.

Sarah  will be providing leadership development support to the President of the Bangladesh Midwifery Society and helping to conduct an organisational capacity assessment workshop.  She leaves for Bangladesh this week  and will spend two weeks in the country, travelling alongside Joy Kemp, the RCM’s Global Professional Advisor.

Sarah said: “I am looking forward to working with and supporting my midwifery colleagues in Bangladesh. They will I am sure also have a lot to teach me. It is one of the great aspects of these projects is that the support and learning is two way.”

For more information on the RCM Bangladesh Project and the RCM’s global work visit https://www.rcm.org.uk/promoting/global

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Notes to editors

About the RCM’s Bangladesh Project - The RCM has received funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), funded by DFID, to implement part of a major project called 'Strengthening the National Midwifery Programme', supporting the Bangladesh Government's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to produce competent midwives. The programme will improve the quality of midwifery education and create an enabling environment for the provision of a midwifery-led continuum of care for pregnant women and their babies. UNFPA invited The Royal College of Midwives UK to contribute to one aspect of this programme ('National capacity for professionalising midwifery increased') through the development of a partnership between the RCM and the Bangladesh Midwifery Society (BMS).

The project is funded by the United Nations Population Fund in Bangladesh (UNFPA Bangladesh) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in association with the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM), and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government of Bangladesh.

The RCM is the only trade union and professional association dedicated to serving midwifery and the whole midwifery team. We provide workplace advice and support, professional and clinical guidance and information, and learning opportunities with our broad range of events, conferences and online resources. For more information visit the RCM website at https://www.rcm.org.uk/.