10 March 2017
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is calling all midwives, maternity support workers (MSWs) and student midwives to get involved and celebrate this year’s International Day of the Midwife (IDM) 2017.
11 May 2017
Today, the Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) from each of the four countries of the UK, supported by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), have come together to set out what professionalism means for nurses and midwives in a new document ‘Enabling ...
29 August 2017
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has today (Tuesday August 29th) begun to highlight an upcoming series of short animated films on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) across social media.
14 August 2017
The position of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) on normal birth has been the subject of much attention and discussion in recent days, including in the media. This was as a result of a front page story in The Times on 12 August. This statement ...
04 September 2017
Gill Walton from today (Monday September 4th) takes the reins as leader of the UK’s only professional association and trade union for midwives, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).
16 October 2017
New analysis by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has revealed that midwives will be thousands of pounds worse off a year by 2022 despite the Government scrapping the public sector pay cap.
13 October 2017
A pregnant mother sleeping on her back during late pregnancy may cause problems for the fetus, according to new research published in The Journal of Physiology. This is the first study to monitor unborn babies overnight and at the same time ...
02 November 2017
A new report published today by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) shows the number of midwives and nurses leaving the NMC register.
01 November 2017
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has today officially launched Maternity Support Worker Month on day two of its Annual Conference in Manchester Central.
