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Health, safety and escalating risk
In our own units and in our teams, we have our ways of assessing risk and improving our maternity services. However, when faced with a global pandemic we took to much larger collective ways of assessing risk, applying national guidance and we ...
Stepping up: Being an MSW during COVID
Chrissy Joyce, an RCM rep and MSW at Imperial, writes about her experience of the changing landscape during the pandemic – and the need for community.
Midwives: having courage, being kind
Cinderella’s mother said something really important when she advised her daughter always to have courage and be kind. I re-watched Kenneth Branagh’s 2015 live action version of the film recently, and the phrase stuck in my mind. In fact, I thought ...
Kindness matters - Midwives: survive, thrive and transform
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Organiser Rae Trotter shares her past experience and recent research on mental health in the maternity workforce and how, in the current climate, it is even more important to shed light on the topic.
Giving birth during a global pandemic – A tribute to my midwife
For my second pregnancy, I opted for my antenatal care to be provided at the midwife-led birth unit at Croydon University Hospital rather than via the community midwives. The idea was that I would receive continuity of care before, during and ...
Reflecting on a very different International Day of the Midwife
One week on, RCM President, Kathryn Gutteridge, reflects on a very different International Day of the Midwife.
Meeting new challenges – students’ perspectives
In the current crisis, many final year students have suspended their studies and entered the midwifery workforce. Here, two members of the RCM Student Midwife Forum (SMF), Amy Yorath of Cardiff University and Rachael Dewey of Edinburgh Napier ...
The inequality of COVID-19
Last month, the journalist Emily Maitlis gave a powerful statement about the current crisis on BBC Newsnight. "You do not survive the illness through fortitude and strength of character," she said, "And the disease is not a great leveller, ...