By Gemma Murphy on 24 January 2024
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 ...
on 06 December 2023
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Scotland has called for all IT systems in Scotland’s NHS to be made neurodiverse friendly. The call comes as the RCM’s attended the STUC Disabled Workers Conference this week.
on 22 November 2023
The RCM’s first standalone student midwife conference took place in Doncaster this week, with students from all over the UK in attendance.
on 14 July 2023
The number of students applying to study midwifery in the UK has dropped by a fifth, according to the latest UCAS figures, raising concerns about future workforce planning.
on 11 October 2022
We are excited to announce the nominations for student midwife elections to the RCM Student Midwife Forum (SMF) open on Monday 10th October 2022. There are 14 seats on the forum in total; two each for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and eight ...
By Colin Beesley on 15 June 2022
A student midwife and RCM member has issued a clarion call launching a petition for funded childcare for student midwives, nurses, and paramedics. Charlotte Woolsey - a midwifery student at Canterbury Christ Church University - started the ...
By Colin Beesley on 26 January 2022
A newly constituted Student Midwife Forum (SMF) starts their work this week, with some new faces joining existing members. The 10 SMF members represent the whole UK, with four representing England and two each from Wales, Scotland and Northern ...
on 05 October 2021
We are excited to announce the nominations for student midwife elections to the RCM Student Midwife Forum (SMF) open on Tuesday 5th October 2021. There are 10 seats on the forum in total; two each for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and four ...
on 08 April 2021
While the ongoing pandemic may place restrictions on people getting together, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is finding new ways of bringing its members together for International Day of the Midwife (IDM) on 5 May. The College is calling ...
on 06 April 2021
Swansea University’s Midwifery Society and the RCM Hywel Dda branch have won the RCM’s 2020 International Day of the Midwife (IDM) competition, winning £1000 to put on educational events. Student midwife Mollie Olivia Cook is the Society ...