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‘RCM responds to new research on risks to diabetic pregnant women’
Diabetic women are more than four times more likely to have a stillborn baby than those without the condition, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of Glasgow looked at the records of nearly 4,000 Scottish diabetic mothers.RCM joins royal colleges and homeless charities in call for mandatory training to support homeless patients’
The Royal College of midwives has joined The Royal College of Physicians along with 5 other medical colleges and homeless charities to call on Government to urgently address the needs of homeless people . The organisations made their call ...'Dispatches and RCM find that 99.7% of midwives have seen mothers who were homeless over the past six months'
Homelessness is rising in the UK, but no-one knows how many women are pregnant and homeless. Channel 4 Dispatches with the Royal College of Midwives have surveyed midwives from across the UK, who collectively care for over 15,000 women per ...Prison is no place for women to give birth, says Royal College of Midwives
All women in prison or custody must have equal maternity care to those women on the outside. That’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) today as it responds a report from the Nuffield Trust. The report ‘Locked out? Prisoners' ...
Walking the line – being a mum with cancer that cannot be cured
As a mum with a baby or young child/ren receiving a diagnosis of cancer that cannot be cured is earth shattering. There are no words to adequately convey the way that cold fear and dread grab hold of your heart and squeeze. The exquisite pain of imagining ...
Vaccine choice for pregnant women welcomed by maternity Royal Colleges
The Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has today announced it will be offering pregnant women the COVID-19 vaccine, in line with the vaccine roll out plan for the UK.
Report highlights ‘striking’ inequalities in UK maternal deaths
Maternal deaths are not evenly spread across the UK population, the latest MBRRACE-UK report finds.