Media releases

Media releases

• • NHS
  • RCOG - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Sands
  • NCT - National Childbirth Trust
  • RCOG
  • Public Health
  • Women
  • Pregnancy
  • Good Health
  • Healthcare Professionals

Influencing

Cuts to local public health budgets will widen health inequalities warn leading women’s health organisations

on 12 August 2021 A partnership of leading women’s health organisations has called on a county council to rethink its plan to cut £2.09 million per year from its public health budget. In a letter to Hampshire County Council (HCC), the One Voice Partnership, ...

Media releases

• • Covid-19
  • Midwives
  • Midwifery Workforce
  • England
  • Postnatal Care
  • Postnatal Depression
  • NCT - National Childbirth Trust

Influencing

RCM says alarm bells should be ringing over postnatal check failings

on 22 April 2021 Life threatening problems could get missed says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) responding to a NCT survey on GP postnatal checks.  This shows that a quarter of new mothers are not being asked about their emotional health and wellbeing at ...

Media releases

• • Maternity Services
  • NHS Funding
  • Funding
  • maternity safety
  • Government
  • Department of Health
  • NHS England
  • England
  • Bereavement Care
  • Sands
  • RCOG - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • NCT - National Childbirth Trust

Influencing

State of NHS buildings holding back improvements in maternity care

on 14 April 2021 Leading health organisations including the Royal College of Midwives have called for upgrades to England’s NHS maternity service buildings to improve care for women and conditions for staff in a letter to Health Minister Nadine Dorries today.

Media releases

• • Research
  • Midwives
  • NCT - National Childbirth Trust
  • Staffing Levels
  • Timing of Birth
  • UCL - University College London

Influencing

RCM comments on City University time of birth research

By RCM on 14 June 2018 Today (7pm Thursday, 14th June) research published by City, University of London in collaboration with UCL (University College London) and the NCT analysed over five million births over a 10 year period in England.

Media releases

• • Maternal Mental health
  • RCM
  • NCT - National Childbirth Trust
  • Study
  • Midwifery Continuity of Carer - MCOC
  • Midwives

Influencing

Concerted effort needed to improve maternal mental health care says RCM on NCT research

By RCM on 22 June 2017 The results of a research to be published today (Thursday, 22nd June 2017) by the NCT shows that nearly half (42%) of new mothers’ mental health problems did not get picked up by a doctor or other health professional.

Media releases

• • NCT - National Childbirth Trust
  • Report
  • Women
  • Midwives
  • Pregnancy
  • Women's Institute

Influencing

‘More midwives and training places needed to ensure Welsh maternity services are future proofed says RCM’

By RCM on 16 January 2017 RCM comments on the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) latest maternity report: Support Overdue: Women’s experience of maternity services*.

Media releases

• • Women's Institute
  • NCT - National Childbirth Trust
  • Midwifery
  • Red Flag Events
  • Midwife Shortage
  • STPs - Sustainability and Transformation Plans

Influencing

WI/NCT maternity report should be red flag event for Government say midwives

By RCM on 16 January 2017 Today the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and the NCT have published a report, saying that dangerously low staffing levels mean that half of women (50%) experience at least one red-flag event during childbirth.