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A place of safety - midwives helping women to vote
Find out how the RCM is supporting midwives to ensure women can exercise their right to vote safely.
Celebrating a decade of MSWs
This April the RCM celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening up of membership to support workers in maternity. Apparently this is an anniversary celebrated by a gift of aluminium or tin but we’ll probably stick with cake.
Caring for refugee women in Europe – a new way to think about a crisis
Have you ever thought about the origins of the word ‘crisis’ in our English language? We use it to describe something terrible, an intractable calamity of some kind. But in Greek – the source of our English word – it means something different, ...Better Births 3 years on: reflections on what matters most
On March 7th 2019, NHS England celebrated the three-year anniversary of the launch of the maternity policy document ‘Better Births’ in Manchester. Attending this event made me reflect on how hard maternity services have worked, and how far ...NW London apprenticeship project insight from Richard Griffin and June Mensah
The six maternity units in North West London (NW London) employ just under 300 MSWs. Last year, the Local Maternity System (LMS), working with Health Education England, organised focus groups with maternity support workers (MSWs).Welcoming the Scottish Government’s announcement of £12 million investment to implement Best Start
Two years on from the publication of Scotland’s Best Start review of maternity & neonatal services I am delighted today to see the official announcement by the Scottish Government that they will be investing £12 million in supporting implementation.The NHS Long Term Plan
The Government has finally published the NHS Long Term Plan, the purpose of which is to guide how the NHS in England develops over the next decade. You can find more information about the Plan at https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/Each Baby Counts: Learn and Support
We are delighted to inform you of an exciting opportunity for a midwife or obstetrician already working within a trust to be seconded to the newly established joint RCM/RCOG Each Baby Counts: Learn and Support Programme as a Local Development ...England NHS staff survey – what have we learnt?
Last week the results of the 2018 England NHS staff survey were published. There is so much information in the survey that I won't attempt to address everything in one blog. Instead I want to focus on an area of real concern, the health and wellbeing ...