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• • NHS Funding
  • Public Health England
  • Midwives
  • Brexit

Concerns that funding increase is not enough

18 June 2018 The Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a 3.4% average annual rise in NHS funding to 2023.

News

• • NMC - Nursing and Midwifery Council
  • Midwives
  • Nurses
  • Research

Supporting

NMC to use new approach for resolving complaints

06 September 2018 A new process for resolving complaints about midwives and nurses is being introduced by the NMC.

Media releases

• • RCM Scotland
  • Pay and Agenda For Change
  • Midwives
  • Scotland

Influencing

RCM members in Scotland accept Government NHS pay offer

17 August 2018 Midwives and maternity support worker members of the Royal College of Midwives in Scotland (RCM) accepted the negotiated proposals for NHS staff on the Agenda for Change staff pay.

Media releases

• • RCM Member
  • Maternity Discrimination
  • Midwives
  • RCM Legal Service

Supporting

Wirral midwife wins compensation for job loss on maternity leave

14 August 2018 A midwife member of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has won compensation of almost £5000 at a tribunal over indirect sex discrimination by One-to-One Midwives (North West), her former employer.

Media releases

• • TUC
  • RCM
  • Midwives
  • FGM - Female Genital Mutilation

RCM wins best member communication at TUC awards

10 July 2018 The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is today celebrating having scooped ‘Best Digital Member Communication’ at the TUC’s Annual Communications Awards.

Media releases

• • RCM
  • Midwives
  • FGM - Female Genital Mutilation
  • NHS Digital

RCM comments on annual FGM statistics from NHS Digital

09 July 2018 The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has today responded to an annual report published by NHS Digital on Female genital mutilation (FGM) for 2017/18.

Media releases

• • RCM Scotland
  • Midwives
  • Great Tapestry Of Scotland
  • Scotland

New Great Tapestry of Scotland panel created by the RCM unveiled at exhibition in Scotland

26 June 2018 A new tapestry panel created by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has been exhibited for the first time at the New Lanark World Heritage site in Scotland.

Media releases

• • MBRRACE
  • Stillbirth Report
  • Midwives
  • Neonatal Death

Improving data collection and sharing safety strategies key to reducing stillbirth rate says RCM on MBRRACE report

14 June 2018 Today (Friday June 15th) the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has responded to the MBRRACE- UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report for births in 2016.

Media releases

• • FGM - Female Genital Mutilation
  • Wales
  • Midwives

Influencing

‘A major step in the campaign to stop FGM in Wales’ says RCM on opening of first specialist FGM clinic in Wales

02 May 2018 This week, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) has launched Wales’s first Specialist Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Pilot Clinic. The specialist service known as the ‘Women’s Wellbeing Clinic’ will be open to all females affected ...

Media releases

• • Midwives
  • IDM - International Day of the Midwife
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers

Supporting

Calling all midwives and MSWs to celebrate International Day of The Midwife 2018

16 March 2018 The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is calling all midwives, maternity support workers (MSWs) and student midwives to get involved and celebrate this year’s International Day of the Midwife (IDM) 2018.