Media releases

Media releases

• • Research
  • Report
  • Government
  • Maternity Discrimination

Influencing

Maternity discrimination plans ‘not good enough’

By RCM on 27 January 2017 The RCM has criticised new government plans to tackle maternity discrimination as ‘not good enough’.

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

• • Report
  • Maternal Death
  • Women
  • Midwives
  • Government
  • MBRRACE

Influencing

‘Some progress but not enough’ on maternal deaths says RCM on new report

By RCM on 05 December 2016 Today the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford has published the latest report on maternal deaths in the UK, ‘Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care 2016’.

Media releases

• • NHS Digital
  • Report
  • Women
  • Older Mothers
  • Midwives
  • Birth rate
  • Interventions

‘An increase in labour interventions is more evidence of the rising complexity of care requiring more midwives says RCM’

By RCM on 09 November 2016 Today (Wednesday 9th of November) NHS Digital have released their Hospital Maternity Activity Report for 2015/16*.