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• • Midwives
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
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RCM team climb a mountain and raise nearly £3k for midwives in need

07 July 2021 Nursing aching limbs and throbbing feet nine Team RCM staff and members went up a mountain and came back down having raised over £3000 so far for the RCM’s Benevolent Fund. The team took on all 3,560 ft of Wales’s Mount Snowdon on 3 July.

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• • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • Midwifery Continuity of Carer - MCOC
  • Midwife Shortage
  • RCM Scotland

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Country news: Scotland

07 March 2018 News and updates from RCM Scotland by director Mary Ross-Davie (Midwives Spring 2018)

RCM Opinion

• • Midwives Magazine
  • MSW advocates
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • MSW Month

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MSW voice: Championing MSWs

07 March 2018 Michelle Jenner shares how she became an MSW advocate and organised her first event.

Media releases

• • Midwives
  • IDM - International Day of the Midwife
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers

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Calling all midwives and MSWs to celebrate International Day of The Midwife 2018

16 March 2018 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) 2018.

Media releases

• • RCM Scotland
  • Midwives
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

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RCM Scotland welcomes lifting of public sector pay cap

05 September 2017 Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed this afternoon that the 1% cap on public sector pay rises in Scotland will be scrapped from next year.

Media releases

• • RCM
  • RCM CEO
  • Midwives
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers

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‘New Chief Executive and General Secretary for Royal College of Midwives’

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).

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• • Midwives
  • Women
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • MSW Month

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‘A shortage of midwives means Maternity Support Workers are more vital than ever says RCM’

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.

Media releases

• • Breastfeeding
  • Midwives
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers

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RCM responds to PHE annual breastfeeding statistics for England

24 October 2018 Today (Thursday 24 October 2018) Public Health England have published annual experimental statistics on breastfeeding prevalence at 6 to 8 weeks after birth.

Media releases

• • Leadership
  • RCM i-Learn
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • Midwives

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Leading for leaders: RCM launches leadership initiative at Annual Conference

04 October 2018 Leadership is the focus of a series of new initiatives launched today by the Royal College of Midwives today as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

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• • Northern Ireland
  • Midwives
  • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

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Northern Ireland midwives to be consulted on industrial action

15 November 2018 Midwives in Northern Ireland will be consulted on whether they are prepared to take industrial action, including strike action, over pay.