05 October 2018
What does it mean to be a leader? This was the question speakers sought to address in the second session of the second day of the RCM conference 2018.
12 April 2019
The lack of BME leadership across the NHS is the focus of a Royal College of Midwives (RCM) motion at the TUC Black Workers’ Conference which gets underway in London today.
05 August 2019
As part of the RCM’s commitment to career development for midwives and maternity support workers, we have a launched a new six-month programme, Leading for Maternity Improvement.
23 October 2018
Today the UK Government has published a new goal to eliminate the ethnicity pay gap in the NHS, and has committed to ensuring that black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) representation in senior leadership matches that across the rest of the ...
06 September 2019
A Worthing midwife has been re-elected to the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) national Board following Board elections. Natalie Linder is a Labour Ward Coordinator at Western Sussex NHS Hospitals Trust, took up her re-elected role on the new ...
09 April 2020
For me, lockdown began in a strange place. I was already struggling with the virus when the announcement was made, so I wasn’t going out and about anyway. Coming through it, I spent some sleepless nights worrying and wondering whether, as my instincts ...
30 April 2021
This important new literature search pack from MIDIRS includes records on all aspects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the first cases of which were reported in December 2019 and is now available free of charge to all RCM members.
13 June 2018
The RCM education conference held yesterday (12 June) looked at enabling leadership, partnership and safety, and provided the message that leadership is for all.
02 November 2018
A new research leadership programme has been launched today for midwives and nurses, in a bid to provide members of both professions a chance to develop in the area.