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RCM releases continuity of carer statement and learning game

29 November 2018 The RCM has published a revised position statement on midwifery continuity of carer and has released an interactive game to improve outcomes with the care model.

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  • Breastfeeding
  • Infant Feeding

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RCM publishes new position statement on infant feeding

12 June 2018 The RCM has confirmed that ‘the decision of whether or not to breastfeed is a woman’s choice and must be respected’, in a new position statement on infant feeding.

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• • Specialist Midwives
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  • Midwifery Continuity of Carer - MCOC

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All women in prison must have access to equivalent maternity care as women outside the prison system’ says RCM publishing new Position Statement on Perinatal Women in the Criminal Justice System

12 November 2019 Following the recent death of a new-born baby, whose mother gave birth alone in a cell at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) says ‘all women in prison must have access to equivalent maternity care’ to women outside ...

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• • RCM
  • Infant Feeding
  • Breastfeeding
  • Midwives
  • Postnatal Care
  • Position Statement
  • Women's Choice

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RCM publishes new position statement on infant feeding

11 June 2018 ‘The decision of whether or not to breastfeed is a woman’s choice and must be respected’, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has confirmed today as it publishes a new position statement on infant feeding.

Media releases

• • Breastfeeding
  • Position Statement
  • Specialist Midwives
  • Postnatal Care
  • Infant Feeding

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RCM responds to BBC poll on women’s experiences of breastfeeding

27 January 2019 Today (Tuesday 29th January)  the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have responded to a new poll about women’s experiences of feeding their baby, commissioned by BBC Radio’ 4 Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio Sheffield.

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• • NHS
  • Women's Choice
  • Midwives
  • RCM
  • Position Statement
  • Doulas
  • Immigrant Women
  • Detention Centres
  • RCM Annual Conference

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Use of doulas and detention of immigrant pregnant women on agenda at RCM conference

27 October 2017 The NHS should not employ doulas and they should be directly commissioned by women, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in a new position statement on doulas published today.