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Consultation opened on job evaluation matching profiles for midwifery bands
The NHS Job Evaluation Group is currently consulting on proposed revisions to the job evaluation matching profile for midwifery - bands 4, 5 and 6. This follows calls from the RCM who have highlighted that the current profiles haven’t been reviewed ...
RCM to ask members how many extra hours they have worked
Are you working additional hours without being paid for them? If so, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) wants to know. Last year RCM members told us that they had worked 100,000 extra unpaid hours in just one week to help keep NHS maternity services ...
RCM ramps up pay campaign as members give evidence to Pay Review Body
Members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) were in London this week giving oral evidence about the real, lived experience of midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) to the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB). They were joined by RCM’s General ...
Improving pay part of the solution to stem the tide of midwives leaving the NHS says RCM
‘Paying staff fairly and valuing the skilled work they do is an important part of the solution to the maternity staffing crisis.’ That’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it submits evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) ...
RCM comments on Panorama’s ‘Midwives under Pressure’ programme
Following the broadcast of Panorama - Midwives under Pressure by the BBC, Gill Walton, Chief Executive of The Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said: “The testimonies of the midwives, the women, and their families are heartbreaking and must ...
RCM joins rally to protect midwives right to strike
Members and staff of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) will take to the streets this weekend to join the TUC’s Protect the Right to Strike march and rally in Cheltenham. The Government’s Strikes (Minimum Services Levels) Act is, according ...
Everyone has a part to play in stopping racism in the NHS, says RCM
Racism has no place in the NHS in Scotland or anywhere else and it’s everyone’s job, including midwives, to help eradicate it wherever it rears its ugly head, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). The RCM is calling on its members in Scotland ...A Christmas wish: an end to humanitarian catastrophe
As many of us enter a period marked by family, joy and celebration, we should also remember that, for too many people, it will be one where survival is the only objective. The Royal College of Midwives echoes the statement published in The Lancet ...A special Christmas message from Gill and the RCM
A special Christmas message from Gill and the RCM