Media releases

Media releases

• • RCM
  • NHS England
  • Maternity Services
  • Race matters
  • Wellbeing Of Women
  • Safety
  • TUC
  • Specialist Midwives
  • BAME

Influencing

RCM calls on Government to improve maternity care for black and Asian women 

on 14 September 2020 Maternity care must be made safer for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) women, says a Royal College of Midwives (RCM) motion at the TUC Congress today. Highlighting that black pregnant women are eight times more likely ...

Media releases

• • Midwives
  • RCM
  • Maternity Services
  • NHS Staff
  • Staffing Levels
  • Midwifery
  • Student midwives
  • Student attrition
  • SMF - Student Midwives Forum
  • TUC

Influencing

RCM calls for urgent review of financial support for student midwives  

By  RCM calls for urgent review of financial support for student midwives   on 06 March 2020 Today the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) will call for an urgent review of financial support for student midwives at the TUC’s Women’s Conference. In 2017 student midwives lost their bursary and started getting billed for full university ...

Media releases

• • Brexit
  • Trade Unions
  • TUC
  • Perinatal Mental Health
  • NHS
  • NHS Funding

Influencing

‘RCM Patron HRH The Princess Royal Visits South Lake Birth Centre’

By ‘RCM Patron HRH The Princess Royal Visits South Lake Birth Centre’ on 06 September 2019 Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has paid a special visit to South Lakes Birth Centre in Barrow-in-Furness, as part of her role as Patron to The Royal College of Midwives (RCM). The centre, named by the local community and staff, is made ...

Media releases

• • Brexit
  • Trade Unions
  • TUC
  • Perinatal Mental Health
  • NHS
  • NHS Funding

Influencing

Better pregnancy mental health care, stopping NHS migrant charging and concerns over no deal Brexit in RCM motions to TUC Congress

on 06 September 2019 At this week’s TUC Congress the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is calling for better perinatal mental health care and to suspend NHS charging for migrant women.

Media releases

• • TUC
  • RCM
  • Midwives
  • FGM - Female Genital Mutilation

RCM wins best member communication at TUC awards

By RCM on 10 July 2018 The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is today celebrating having scooped ‘Best Digital Member Communication’ at the TUC’s Annual Communications Awards.

Media releases

• • TUC
  • RCM
  • Midwives
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

Supporting

‘Government can no longer deny midwives and all NHS staff a fair pay rise says RCM’

By RCM on 16 October 2017 New analysis by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has revealed that midwives will be thousands of pounds worse off a year by 2022 despite the Government scrapping the public sector pay cap.

Media releases

• • TUC
  • Bullying and Harassment
  • BME staff

Supporting

RCM highlights bullying of BME NHS staff at TUC Black Workers Conference

By RCM on 07 April 2017 Bullying and harassment of BME NHS staff is the focus of a Royal College of Midwives (RCM) motion at the TUC Black Workers’ Conference starting today. The RCM will also be supporting a motion by the union Prospect on the under-representation ...

Media releases

• • Maternity Discrimination
  • TUC
  • Breastfeeding

Influencing

‘RCM highlights EU workers, maternity discrimination and public sector pay restraint at TUC women’s conference’

By RCM Media Office on 08 March 2017 The Trade Union Congress (TUC) Women’s Conference takes place in London this week (Wednesday 8th March – Friday March 10th).

Media releases

• • TUC
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • NHS Staff
  • Brexit

Influencing

‘RCM supports TUC calls for Government to confirm working rights of NHS workers post Brexit

By RCM on 28 February 2017 The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has today published their latest analysis that provides a regional breakdown of where NHS and adult social care services are most reliant on healthcare workers from the EU.