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RCM Opinion

• • Smoking
  • Pregnancy
  • Midwives

Supporting

Guest blog: New tools to help you support smokefree pregnancies

26 June 2019 As midwives are well aware, stopping smoking is one of the best things a woman and her partner can do to protect the health of their baby through pregnancy and beyond. But you may not be aware that in recent years the percentage of women recorded ...

RCM Opinion

• • Research
  • Midwives Magazine
  • Smoking

Influencing

Secondhand smoke exposure during pregnancy in developing countries

23 November 2018 Exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy poses serious but avoidable risk to fetal development leading to stillbirth, congenital malformations and low birthweight.

RCM Opinion

• • Smoking

Supporting

Smokefree

31 May 2019 As midwives caring for women we have all listened to these sheepish confessions: ‘I know it’s bad… but I only smoke one or two in the evening… once the kids are in bed… it really is one of life’s few pleasures… something just for me….’.

News

• • NMPA - National Maternity and Perinatal Audit

Influencing

Maternity audit publishes new report

09 November 2017 The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) has today (9 November) published a major clinical report that identifies areas of good practice in maternity care, as well as opportunities to deliver improvements.

Media releases

• • RCM Wales
  • Public Health
  • Pregnancy and Weight Management
  • Smoking

Supporting

RCM Wales calls for more support for women around smoking in pregnancy and obesity at Wales TUC Congress

22 May 2018 The importance of public health and the need to invest in it is the focus of a motion from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Wales at the TUC Wales Conference starting today (Tuesday, 22nd May 2018).

Media releases

• • Pregnancy
  • Morning Sickness
  • Smoking
  • Advice
  • Study
  • Research
  • Midwives

Influencing

RCM welcomes article on morning sickness in early pregnancy

07 December 2017 A link between morning sickness indicating a healthy pregnancy, and the reason smoking is so detrimental has been found, according to a review published in the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology.

Media releases

• • Stillbirth
  • Home Birth
  • Public Health
  • Low Birthweight

Influencing

Need to do even better says RCM on stillbirth statistics

16 October 2017 Today the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published statistics on births, including home births and stillbirth rates. Commenting on the statistics, Louise Silverton, Director for Midwifery at the Royal College of Midwives, said: ...

Media releases

• • NHS Digital
  • Induction
  • Caesarean Section
  • Stillbirth
  • Smoking

Influencing

Need more information on rise in inductions and caesareans says RCM

10 November 2017 Today figures released by NHS Digital show that the proportion of pregnant women having a spontaneous labour has decreased over the past year. Over the same time, the proportion of caesareans undertaken before the onset of labour has also ...

Media releases

• • RCOG - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Midwives
  • Obesity
  • NMPA - National Maternity and Perinatal Audit
  • Smoking

Influencing

‘NMPA report provides opportunity to improve safety and quality of maternity services says RCM’

08 November 2017 A new report published today will enable quality improvement in maternity across the UK.

Media releases

• • Maternity Services

Promoting

Midwives comment on new annual maternity figures from NHS Digital

25 October 2018 Today (Thursday 25th October 2018) NHS Digital have published the NHS Maternity Statistics 2017-18 report*.