07 May 2021
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has welcomed the State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2021 report, which shows the progress made to maternity services as well as the work needed to reach suggested goals and prevent 4.3 million deaths per ...
08 March 2021
Midwives’ voices are often absent from international, national or local policy dialogue. In Bangladesh, where midwifery is a new profession and all midwives are young women and therefore doubly disadvantaged because of their age and gender, ...
13 September 2018
I'm back in Dhaka (Bangladesh), five weeks after my last visit in July, to help facilitate the first ever online election of executive officers for the Bangladesh Midwifery Society which is twinned with the Royal College of Midwives.
31 July 2018
The RCM has been engaged in midwifery twinning in various countries since 2012 but only started the Bangladesh Twinning Project in July 2017.
21 March 2018
Isabelle Lemberger–Cooper is a research midwife from Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, an RCM Steward, and is currently undertaking a volunteer placement as part of the RCM / Bangladesh Midwifery Society Twinning Project.
08 March 2018
On this International Women’s Day we celebrate the work that many of our RCM members are engaged in. On a recent trip to Uganda, our global team caught up with Diane Lockhart, a midwife and RCM member from Northern Ireland, working in a Kampala ...
Joining with the international midwifery community in celebrating International Day of the Midwife this webinar focusses on the role on midwives in humanitarian settings.