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New resources supporting care handover between midwives and health visitors
Having demonstrated a significant improvement in outcomes for women and babies, providing continuity of carer along the whole ‘maternity journey’ has become a key tenet of modern midwifery policy. Additional resources are needed to implement ...Race Matters for all of us
It has been a whole year since the murder of George Floyd, an event that shook many individuals and organisaitons into action against systemic racism. I don’t think any of us, regardless of who we are or where we come from, have not been disturbed ...Midwifery matters at the NMC
Someone recently said that our approach to midwifery practice at the NMC should be to “think once, think twice, think midwife!” With more than 39,000 midwives on our permanent register, we recognise how important it is to have a positive and ...![](/media/2064/fingers-typing-on-keyboard-istock-250x200.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=131884116470000000)
Wasting no time when it comes to pay
It’s been a whole month since I wrote my last blog on pay. In one month, we’ve seen Scotland members accept a headline offer of four per cent. We’ve seen the majority of the public call out the measly one per cent offer for England. We’ve seen celebrities ...![](/media/4972/uniforms-2.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132660625390000000)
Avoiding an identity crisis
I am going to have to come clean. I love watching Call the Midwife. I try not to watch it, but I just get hooked in again and again. I see the history of midwifery unravel before me. This week it dawned on me that the midwives are looking more nurse like ...Wellbeing champions in Wales
Having all been a little nervous starting the programme, we were allocated to our teams and got to meet each other and we realised that we had so much in common, even though we came from different areas, both geographically and in terms of midwifery ...![](/media/4965/leadership-poster-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=720&height=467&rnd=132657314410000000)
Wales Midwifery Leadership and Development Programme
As with so many other initiatives, the programme went virtual in 2020. Even so, the steering group that runs it was anxious that it would not be successful, and that people might not be able to sign up to it – we were after all in the middle of a pandemic ...IDM 2021 – it’s in everything we do
On 5 May we celebrated International Day of the Midwife (IDM), which has always been a big occasion for the RCM. IDM is our chance to celebrate the best vocation in the world, but we also get to give thanks, show appreciation and celebrate our branches ...RCM calls for new maternity strategy for Northern Ireland
Research forms the basis of evidence-based practice and it is important that within midwifery we continue to question why things are done the way they are in order to improve upon current standards.![](/media/4941/enitan-taiwo.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=467&height=720&rnd=132647832920000000)