24 January 2024
Below freezing temperatures and snowy conditions did not deter hundreds of RCM members in Northern Ireland from taking to the picket lines last Thursday. Midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) certainly did not allow the weather conditions ...
30 January 2024
‘Now is the time for a resolution on pay,’ says The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Northern Ireland with the anticipated return of the Executive and an existing commitment from the UK Government on funding for public sector pay.
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14 February 2024
‘Paying staff fairly and valuing the skilled work they do is an important part of the solution to the maternity staffing crisis.’ That’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it submits evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) ...
08 May 2024
The head of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has pledged to start a revolution in maternity care. Gill Walton, Chief Executive of the RCM, made an impassioned plea at the RCM’s national conference to midwives and maternity support workers ...
17 June 2024
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM), alongside The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG), and the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) are today issuing ...
05 July 2024
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) today will be writing to the new Secretary for State for Health and Social Care on their first day on the job to ensure improving UK maternity services is top of their agenda. The RCM says action on safety and staffing ...
28 May 2020
Safety must be an absolute priority and combined with effective leadership be the basis for which all maternity care is delivered. That’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as it responds to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) ...
08 September 2020
Today two leading Royal Colleges have called the delay by NHS England in publishing guidance on partners attending births, scans and other ante- and postnatal appointments as ‘unacceptable’. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the Royal ...
23 November 2020
A leading Royal College has called for greater support to be given to vulnerable women during pregnancy. The Royal College of Midwives has warned that, without appropriate support, women with severe and multiple disadvantage are at greater ...