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• • Maternity Services

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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*.

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• • Smoking
  • Report
  • Obesity
  • Induction
  • NHS

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Proportion of induced labours rise

26 October 2018 New maternity figures show that there has been a rise in the proportion of induced labours in NHS hospitals.

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Set aside short-term political differences and look decades ahead says RCM on Lancet health Manifesto

06 October 2016 Today the Lancet has published a “Manifesto for a healthy and health-creating society”. The manifesto is supported by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).The Manifesto sets out a positive vision of how the UK can promote and improve health ...

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• • NHS
  • Smoking

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The NHS Smokefree Pledge

15 January 2018 The Smokefree Action Coalition has launched the NHS Smokefree Pledge.

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• • Scottish Government
  • Scottish Maternity Services

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Midwives need time and resources says RCM commenting on Scotland Health of Nation report

25 April 2019 Today the Scottish Government has published the Annual Report for the Chief Medical Officer 2018 - ‘A Summary of the Health of the Nation’. The report includes a focus on the rise in premature births in Scotland. Commenting Dr Mary Ross-Davie, ...

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• • Public Health
  • Alcohol and pregnancy
  • Smoking

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Need to reduce widening inequality say midwives on child health report

25 January 2017 Today (Thursday, 26th January 2017) the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) have published its The State of Child Health report. The report says that a lack of strategic national focus and persistence of a wide gap between ...

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• • Public Health

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RCM concerned at new public health cuts figures

20 September 2018 Figures released today from the Labour party say that 85% of councils are reducing public health budgets this year as cuts hit services.

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• • NHS Staff
  • Maternity Services
  • Midwifery
  • Covid-19
  • RCOG

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We must keep the momentum going says the RCM on stillbirths fall

07 December 2020 The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) says that efforts to keep driving down stillbirth rates must continue, as new figures show a continued fall this year.

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• • MBRRACE
  • Stillbirth Report
  • RCM

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‘Much more to do’ on stillbirth says RCM on new report

22 June 2017 Today (Thursday, 22nd June) a report from MBRACE-UK finds that the stillbirth rate in the UK has reduced by almost 8% over the period 2013 to 2015. A current Government ambition is to halve the rates of stillbirth and neonatal death in England ...

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• • Maternity Transformation

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The NHS Long Term Plan

09 January 2019 The Government has finally published the NHS Long Term Plan, the purpose of which is to guide how the NHS in England develops over the next decade. You can find more information about the Plan at https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/