15 March 2022
Safer Sleep Week is The Lullaby Trust’s national awareness campaign targeting anyone looking after a young baby. It aims to raise awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the safer sleep advice that reduces the risk of it occurring.
16 March 2022
We need more midwives. That has been one of the most important messages the RCM has sought to get across to politicians for years. Indeed, it is one of the asks we have in the blueprint for better maternity services in Northern Ireland that we are ...
22 March 2022
Putting women at the heart of care is what midwives do, day in, day out. But what if they request care outside guidance? The RCM’s Policy & Practice Advisor, Lia Brigante, introduces the new publication to support midwives.
22 April 2024
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has welcomed the launch of a Health and Wellbeing guide for staff in NHS Wales.
Supporting both the physical and mental health of staff is crucial, the RCM says, to ensuing the delivery of safe high quality ...
20 July 2018
In a speech today (20 July) the new secretary of state for health and social care has outlined his priorities for the NHS.
Matt Hancock made his speech to staff at his local hospital – West Suffolk Hospital – and explained his first priorities ...
16 May 2018
A ‘lessons learned’ review into the NMC’s handling of concerns about midwives’ fitness to practise at the Furness General Hospital between 2004 and 2014 has been published today (16 May).