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Safety in maternity

This short recording focuses on aspects of safety in maternity and three projects the RCM is collaborating on.

Media releases

• • Midwifery Continuity of Carer - MCOC
  • Safe high quality care

Promoting

Advance to continuity of carer - RCM launches continuity of carer board game

05 October 2018 A board game to support midwives and maternity services to move towards more continuity of care and carer is being launched today at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Annual Conference. Continuity of care and carer is a key element of the Better ...

• • Maternity Safety
  • Safe high quality care
  • Multi-disciplinary care
  • Evidence-based guidelines

Care outside guidance webinar

How midwives can personalise care and women’s choice, including when those fall outside clinical recommendations.

Media releases

• • Women
  • Safe high quality care
  • CQC - Care Quality Commission

Influencing

RCM responds to CQC’s national maternity survey results

30 January 2018 The CQC’s national maternity survey 2017 published today (Tuesday 30th January) has highlighted improvements in areas such as choice of where to give birth, quality of information and access to help and support after giving birth.

Media releases

• • Maternity Services
  • Department of Health
  • Midwifery Continuity of Carer - MCOC
  • Safe high quality care

Influencing

RCM responds to new maternity package announcement by Department of Health

02 January 2019 Today (Sunday 30th December) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock has announced a new NHS maternity package for England.

Media releases

• • NHS
  • Safety
  • Maternity Safety
  • Safe high quality care

Influencing

Safe maternity care is a right for all women says RCM on prison stillbirth report

12 January 2022 A report was published yesterday by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman into the stillbirth of a baby at HMP Styal.

Media releases

• • Midwives
  • Student midwives
  • Safe high quality care
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • IDM - International Day of the Midwife

Supporting

Midwives set to celebrate International Day of the Midwife in style

13 April 2018 Midwives set to celebrate International Day of the Midwife in style

Media releases

• • Safe high quality care
  • RCM
  • NHS England
  • RCM Member
  • Maternity Safety Champions
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers

Supporting

Midwives welcome new guide launched to support maternity safety champions

15 February 2018 Today (Thursday 15th February) NHS Improvements has launched new guidance to support maternity safety champions.

Media releases

• • Midwifery
  • Safe high quality care
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Safety
  • INMO - Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation
  • Northern Ireland

Influencing

‘RCM and INMO host joint all-Ireland midwife conference in Armagh’

17 October 2019 Midwives from both sides of the Irish border will join together today as the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) All Ireland Annual Midwifery Conference gets underway in Armagh.. In January ...

Media releases

• • Abortion
  • Northern Ireland
  • Director For Northern Ireland
  • Midwifery
  • Safe high quality care
  • Consultations
  • Evidence-Based Practice

Influencing

‘RCM providing support to members now guidance on abortion law in Northern Ireland has been published’

04 October 2019 The government has published interim guidance for healthcare professionals on abortion law in Northern Ireland. The new guidelines cover the period from 22 October to 31 March 2020. They set out what will happen following changes to the ...