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• • Maternity Safety Champions
  • NHS

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RCM voices support for safety champions guide

By John Windell on 16 February 2018 A new guide designed to enable and empower the work of maternity safety champions could help to improve services, says the RCM.

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• • NHS
  • Awards

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New awards to celebrate 70 years of the NHS

By Julie Griffiths on 07 February 2018 A competition to celebrate the NHS’s 70th birthday will be launched in Westminster today (7 February).

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• • NHS
  • Secretary of State for Health

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RCM supports letter to Jeremy Hunt

By Julie Griffiths on 16 January 2018 The RCM has joined 11 other trade unions in an open letter calling on the health secretary Jeremy Hunt to provide the NHS with emergency funds.

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• • NHS
  • Smoking

Supporting

The NHS Smokefree Pledge

By Julie Griffiths on 15 January 2018 The Smokefree Action Coalition has launched the NHS Smokefree Pledge.

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• • Midwives Magazine
  • Independent Midwives
  • NHS

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The big story: Blurred lines

By Julie Griffiths on 17 November 2017 Women have always been able to hire independent midwives and give birth in private hospitals. But now they are increasingly hiring non-NHS midwives to give birth on NHS premises.