27 September 2021
Better pay, staffing levels and working conditions are vital to retain staff and recruit more says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). This comes as the RCM publishes the results of a survey of its midwife and maternity support worker (MSW) ...
18 January 2021
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) along with 13 other Health unions representing more than 1.3m NHS workers across the UK have written to the Prime Minister today (Monday) urging him to speed up the pay process so NHS staff receive a promised ...
22 September 2022
RCM members working in the NHS in England and Wales are set to be formally balloted on industrial action over pay.
This follows a consultation in which RCM members overwhelmingly rejected their governments’ pay awards of £1400 for most ...
22 September 2022
A new independent maternity working group, one of the key Immediate and Essential Actions (IEAs) from the Ockenden review of maternity safety, has met for the first time. The group, which is co-chaired by Gill Walton, Chief Executive of the ...
07 October 2022
The RCM is urging all members working in the NHS in England and Wales to vote yes to industrial action over pay as it announces the date its official ballot will open.
After members in both countries overwhelmingly rejected their governments’ ...
13 December 2022
Sending a clear and defiant message to the Welsh Government, Royal College of Midwives (RCM) members in Wales have voted yes to industrial action over pay. The result follows a ballot of eligible RCM members in Wales that closed yesterday. An ...
25 July 2022
The Government must act now to stop England’s maternity services spiralling into an ever-worsening crisis says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). This comes as the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s Expert Panel - to which the RCM ...
01 August 2022
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has today launched a formal consultation of its members in England and Wales to gauge their appetite for industrial action following the below inflation pay award.
The College says it wants to know what ...
12 August 2022
Midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) working in the NHS in Scotland have overwhelmingly rejected the Scottish Government’s pay offer of 5%.
In the highest ever turnout for an RCM pay consultation in Scotland, almost 90 percent ...