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RCM at TUC Congress 2019
The RCM’s two motions to Congress were calling for better perinatal mental healthcare and the suspension of NHS charging for migrant women. We used our speeches to highlight the shortage of specialist perinatal mental health midwives and ...Shutting down Parliament is bad news for the NHS
On Wednesday morning the Prime Minister announced that Parliament would soon be prorogued (political jargon for “shut down”) for five weeks from the week of 9th September until 14th October. By lunchtime the Queen had agreed, and the paperwork ...Why we’re backing a People’s Vote
Today the RCM has backed the People’s Vote campaign. This calls for a public vote on the final Brexit deal, once the details of that deal are known. We believe the people should have the last word on Brexit, not politicians at Westminster.The threat of Brexit
The clock is ticking. It is almost two years since the 2016 EU referendum, over a year since the Prime Minister triggered the Article 50 process to take the UK out of the European Union, and less than a year before the scheduled date for Brexit.Help us get MPs talking about Brexit and the NHS
Hard as it may be to believe, in the almost two years since the referendum, MPs have never debated the impact of Brexit on the NHS. With 20,000 EU nurses, 10,000 EU doctors and well over 1,000 EU midwives working just in England’s NHS, this is an issue ...