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IDM 2021: keeping midwifery on the global agenda
Dear midwives, colleagues and friends, Happy International Day of the Midwife! Today we will once again put midwifery and women's sexual reproductive health and rights on the global agenda.
Follow the data in maternity care
Today marks International Day of the Midwife and this year’s theme is Follow the data: invest in midwives. We know maternity data is imperative to the care we provide. Not only is it important to call for more investment from the Government to ...
Hearing midwives’ voices: International Women's Day 2021
Midwives’ voices are often absent from international, national or local policy dialogue. In Bangladesh, where midwifery is a new profession and all midwives are young women and therefore doubly disadvantaged because of their age and gender, ...
Shadowing placement at the RCM
In August I was privileged enough to undertake a two day ‘shadowing’ placement with Tara Shoham (Global Projects Officer) at the RCM headquarters in London. I was really interested in the work of the Global Team, having briefly chatted to Joy ...
Who wants to be a volunteer?
The RCM has enabled more than 90 UK midwives to take part in twinning projects across the globe. Here four volunteers explain why it’s been so beneficial.
A world of difference
Joy Kemp and Carmel Moran explain the RCM’s global mission to enhance the confidence, professional practice and influence of midwives across the globe.