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RCM guidance on implementing the NICE safe staffing guideline on midwifery staffing in maternity settings
The purpose of this RCM guidance is to assist Directors of Midwifery (DOMs)/Heads of Midwifery (HOMs) and other senior midwives, as well as general and divisional managers, implementing the safe staffing guideline for midwives in maternity ...
E-cigarettes in pregnancy
This infographic responds to frequently asked questions about smoking cigarettes and vaping during pregnancy.
Roles and Responsibilities of Maternity Support Workers
The aim of this guide is to assist all those involved in developing the maternity workforce with advice on the tasks that maternity support workers can and cannot legitimately undertake.
The RCM standards for midwifery services in the UK
The RCM has developed these midwifery service standards within a framework, to enable service providers, commissioners and RCM members to deliver compassionate, well-led, professional evidence-based midwifery care which maximises ...
Midwives Magazine - Autumn 2016
Fertility, feminism and family planning - The pill’s impact on women and midwives | Relationships - How to help couples struggling with their relationships | Models of care - A look at different models to provide continuity of carer | Vitamin ...
Evidence Based Midwifery - September 2016
Editorial: Building on success and learning from experience | The association between maternal self-report of depression and the risk of pre-eclampsia | Planning birth in and admission to a midwife-led unit | The development, implementation ...
Reconfigurations
The RCM's position on what should be contained in proposals for merging or reconfiguring maternity services, as well as background and context for home births, midwifery units, obstetric units and workforce issues.
Midwives Magazine - Summer 2016
The next generation game - Extensive coverage of the report of the National Maternity Review for England | Kangaroo care - A group of midwives and an international charity take kangaroo mother care to China | Powys midwifery - Looking at the emergency ...
Evidence Based Midwifery - June 2016
Editorial: Zika virus disease epidemic | The evidence-based medicine problem in studies of pharmacological substances in pregnancy and childbirth | The inclusion of photo-elicitation into a narrative study of mothers’ and midwives’ experiences ...