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Need to increase efforts to reduce smoking in pregnancy says RCM
Reducing smoking in pregnancy is a key driver in reducing stillbirth rates and more effort is needed to keep pushing smoking rates down says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). This comes as the Khan report into tobacco control is published ...Midwives unable to complete crucial training further highlights need to address midwife shortage
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has said findings that show midwives are undertaking training in their own time further shows the impact that midwife shortages are causing to staff across NHS maternity services. A survey by baby loss ...Midwife numbers now lower than at the last general election says RCM
New monthly NHS workforce figures for England analysed by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have revealed that the number of midwives in England is now lower than at the time of the last general election. These latest figures are in fact ...
Maternity Royal Colleges welcome increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in pregnant women
As new COVID-19 vaccine uptake figures in pregnancy are published today, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) are urging pregnant women who have not been vaccinated to consider ...
Mounting Scottish maternity service staffing shortages spark safety fears says RCM
Understaffing, staff burnout and fears they cannot provide safe care could see many midwives heading for the exit, according to a Royal College of Midwives (RCM) survey of its members in Scotland. A staggering half of respondents say they rarely ...Improve midwifery education about skin colour to make maternity care safer says RCM
The lack of teaching about darker skin tones in midwifery education could be exacerbating racial inequalities in maternity care, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). The College is calling for improvements in midwifery education ...
A Royal opening of RCM’s and RCOG’s new headquarters in London
Showing that partnership is the key to success the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) jointly hosted Their Royal Highnesses The Princess Royal and The Duchess of Cambridge for ...RCM comment on the temporary pause of births at Lagan Valley Midwife Led Unit
The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has temporarily closed its midwifery-led unit at Lagan Valley Hospital to births. Responding, Karen Murray, Director for Northern Ireland at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said: ...
RCM response to Ockenden review into maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford
Poor culture and leadership must be addressed if we are to make our maternity services the safest place to give birth. This statement from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) came as the final report of the largest ever review of NHS maternity ...