By System failing BAME women says RCM on new study on 08 June 2020
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is calling for urgent action as a study published in the BMJ today (Monday 8 June) shows more than half of pregnant women recently admitted to UK hospitals with a COVID-19 infection were from black, Asian or ...
By RCM and RCOG respond to UKOSS study of more than 400 pregnant women hospitalised with coronavirus on 11 May 2020
A large UK study on the outcomes of 427 pregnant women and their babies during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the UK has been published today.
The results show that, between 1 March and 14 April 2020, 4.9 pregnant women per 1,000 were ...
on 28 April 2020
As the Government announces plans to restart and re-open discrete areas of the NHS, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has raised concerns about capacity in maternity to get services operating fully again. A survey of senior midwives across ...
By RCM welcomes announcement from Government on payment for bereaved families of NHS workers
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) says that today’s announcement by the Government on an additional death in service payment for all NHS workers is ‘real recognition of the risk RCM members and all other frontline NHS staff face during this ...
