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• • Midwife Shortage
  • Maternal Mental health
  • Perinatal Mental Health
  • Baby Box

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RCM Responds to Lib Dem Election Manifesto - Want to see firm commitment to more midwives

20 November 2019 The Shadow Secretary of State for Health Johnathan Ashworth today launched the Labour 'NHS Rescue Plan'. Speaking at the launch of the plan he used the closure of a maternity unit because of a shortage of midwives to confirm that Labour would ...

News

• • UK
  • Pregnancy
  • Report
  • MBRRACE
  • Maternal Death
  • Maternal Mental health

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Report highlights ‘striking’ inequalities in UK maternal deaths

02 November 2018 Maternal deaths are not evenly spread across the UK population, the latest MBRRACE-UK report finds.

News

• • Student midwives
  • Brexit
  • Bereavement Care
  • Maternal Mental health
  • Midwives Magazine
  • SMF - Student Midwives Forum

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Your student news: Spring 2018

07 March 2018 What’s new in the student world? Your chance to tell us where you’ve been and what you’ve been up to...

Media releases

• • RCM
  • Midwifery
  • Perinatal Mental Health
  • Maternal Mental health
  • Awards
  • RCM Annual Midwifery Awards

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London midwives win national award for mental health work

07 May 2020 Two midwives who improved care for women with severe perinatal mental health needs have won the Excellence in Perinatal Mental Health Award in the RCM’s Annual Midwifery Awards. The award comes during Maternal Mental Health Week from 4 to 10 ...

Media releases

• • Midwives
  • Midwifery Workforce
  • England
  • Maternal Mental health
  • Miscarriage

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RCM supports the call for better miscarriage care

27 April 2021 Responding to new miscarriage research and a call for better miscarriage care from the pregnancy charity Tommy’s, Dr Mary Ross-Davie, Director for Professional Midwifery at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said “When a woman loses her ...

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• • RCM
  • Prenatal Depression
  • Women
  • Pregnancy
  • Midwives
  • Maternal Mental health
  • Jama Research

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RCM comments on new JAMA research on prenatal depression

13 July 2018 Research published today (Friday 13th of July) by JAMA shows an increased prevalence of depression in today’s young mothers, compared with their mother’s generation giving birth to their daughters in the 1990s.

Media releases

• • Maternal Mental health
  • RCM
  • RCM Wales

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‘More has to be done to improve the provision of perinatal mental health services for women in Wales says RCM’

19 April 2018 Today (Thursday, 19th April 2018) the Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) has published maps showing that pregnant women and new mums in a quarter of the UK still cannot access lifesaving specialist perinatal mental health services ...

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• • Maternal Mental health
  • RCOG - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Women
  • Pregnancy
  • Midwives
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Perinatal Mental Health

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'Voices of women must be listened to say midwives on new report'

21 February 2017 Only seven percent (7%) of women suffering with mental health problems during or after pregnancy are refereed to specialist care, that’s according to survey results published today by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists ...

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• • Maternal Mental health
  • Women
  • Pregnancy
  • Perinatal Mental Health
  • Midwives
  • NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

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‘Vital that equal importance given to both mental and physical state of women during pregnancy say midwives’

08 February 2017 ‘GPs should ask women who have given birth about their eating and sleeping habits in case they are suffering from depression’ that’s according to new indicators proposed by NICE.

Media releases

• • Maternal Mental health
  • RCM
  • NCT - National Childbirth Trust
  • Study
  • Midwifery Continuity of Carer - MCOC
  • Midwives

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Concerted effort needed to improve maternal mental health care says RCM on NCT research

22 June 2017 The results of a research to be published today (Thursday, 22nd June 2017) by the NCT shows that nearly half (42%) of new mothers’ mental health problems did not get picked up by a doctor or other health professional.