Media releases

Media releases

• • Research
  • RCM Fellowship

Influencing

Herts midwife receives national midwifery honour

By RCM on 26 June 2018 A midwife from Hertfordshire has received a national award from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) for her contribution to midwifery. Laura Abbott a senior midwifery lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire has received a prestigious ...

Media releases

• • RCM Scotland
  • Midwives
  • Great Tapestry Of Scotland
  • Scotland

New Great Tapestry of Scotland panel created by the RCM unveiled at exhibition in Scotland

By RCM on 26 June 2018 A new tapestry panel created by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has been exhibited for the first time at the New Lanark World Heritage site in Scotland.

Media releases

• • RCM Fellowship

Influencing

Leicester midwifery academic receives national midwifery honour

By RCM on 25 June 2018 A midwifery academic from Leicester has received a national honour from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) for her contribution to midwifery education and practice.

Media releases

• • RCM Scotland
  • NHS Scotland
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

Royal College of Midwives Scotland comment on NHS Scotland pay agreement

By RCM on 25 June 2018 Today the Scottish Government has announced the details of an agreement on pay for NHS staff on the Agenda for Change pay scales. This includes midwives, maternity support workers, nurses and a number of other NHS professions.

Media releases

• • RCM Fellowship
  • Research

London midwife receives national midwifery honour

By RCM on 19 June 2018 A midwife from London has received a national award from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) for her contribution to midwifery.

Media releases

• • RCM Fellowship
  • Public Health

Influencing

Liverpool born midwife receives national midwifery honour

By RCM on 19 June 2018 A midwife originally from Formby in Liverpool and one of the very first Consultant Midwives in the UK has received a national award from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) for her contribution to midwifery.

Media releases

• • NHS Funding
  • Public Health
  • Health and social care

Influencing

Major concerns that promised money simply not enough for NHS say midwives

By RCM on 18 June 2018 The Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a 3.4% average annual rise in NHS funding to 2023. Commenting on the announcement Gill Walton, Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, said: “The Royal College of ...

Media releases

• • MBRRACE
  • Stillbirth Report
  • Midwives
  • Neonatal Death

Improving data collection and sharing safety strategies key to reducing stillbirth rate says RCM on MBRRACE report

By RCM on 14 June 2018 Today (Friday June 15th) the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has responded to the MBRRACE- UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report for births in 2016.

Media releases

• • Research
  • Midwives
  • NCT - National Childbirth Trust
  • Staffing Levels
  • Timing of Birth
  • UCL - University College London

Influencing

RCM comments on City University time of birth research

By RCM on 14 June 2018 Today (7pm Thursday, 14th June) research published by City, University of London in collaboration with UCL (University College London) and the NCT analysed over five million births over a 10 year period in England.

Media releases

• • RCM
  • People's Vote Campaign
  • Brexit

Influencing

RCM announces support of People's Vote campaign

By RCM on 14 June 2018 The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has today (Thursday 14th June) announced its support of the People’s Vote campaign on Brexit.