Media releases Student midwives Bursaries and Scholarships Midwives Nurses Good Health Midwife Shortage Midwifery and nursing degree RCM Influencing ‘We warned you’ says RCM on shortfall in applications for midwifery degrees By RCM on 19 December 2016 Applications for midwifery, nursing degrees and other allied health university courses have fallen by over twenty percent in England.