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• • Evidence-Based Practice

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Standards and guidance

18 December 2018 Information and guidance issued by the RCM to help you provide safe and evidence-based maternity care.

News

• • RCM
  • Director For Midwifery
  • Evidence-Based Practice

Promoting

RCM says farewell to Louise Silverton

03 August 2018 After 24 years at the RCM, Louise Silverton CBE has stepped down from her post as director for midwifery.

News

• • Pregnancy and Weight Management
  • Evidence-Based Practice

Exercise is ‘critical’ for healthy pregnancy

19 October 2018 Physical activity in pregnancy is a ‘critical component’ of achieving a healthy pregnancy, Canadian guidance claims.

News

• • Research
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Newborn

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Evidence-based decisions around screening are vital says research

18 May 2018 National recommendations on whether to screen newborn babies for rare conditions do not always assess the evidence on the key benefits and harms of screening, according to researchers.

RCM Opinion

• • Midwives Magazine
  • Midwife Training
  • Evidence-Based Practice

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It’s more than just talking

12 February 2010 Head of midwifery at the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust Kim Gibbon explores how communication skills can be enhanced by using simple counselling techniques.

RCM Opinion

• • Antenatal / Prenatal
  • Intrapartum care
  • Postnatal Care
  • Research
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Midwives Magazine

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Informed choice and the concept of risk

04 June 2008 In today's culture of blame, it seems there is a constant need to find someone responsible in the case of things going wrong. It is often easier to limit the choices offered to women to those midwives feel most comfortable with, but, as Jean Walker ...

RCM Opinion

• • Midwives Magazine
  • Intrapartum care
  • Antenatal / Prenatal
  • Newborn
  • Evidence-Based Practice

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Ethnic and cultural difference: implications for maternity care

12 June 2008 This is a report of a meeting of the Forum on Maternity and the Newborn of the Royal Society of Medicine, held on Thursday 25 September 2003. The meeting was chaired by Eugene Oteng-Ntim, senior registrar and perinatal fellow, at the Chelsea and ...

Media releases

• • Midwifery
  • Safe high quality care
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Safety
  • INMO - Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation
  • Northern Ireland

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‘RCM and INMO host joint all-Ireland midwife conference in Armagh’

17 October 2019 Midwives from both sides of the Irish border will join together today as the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) All Ireland Annual Midwifery Conference gets underway in Armagh.. In January ...

Media releases

• • Abortion
  • Northern Ireland
  • Director For Northern Ireland
  • Midwifery
  • Safe high quality care
  • Consultations
  • Evidence-Based Practice

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‘RCM providing support to members now guidance on abortion law in Northern Ireland has been published’

04 October 2019 The government has published interim guidance for healthcare professionals on abortion law in Northern Ireland. The new guidelines cover the period from 22 October to 31 March 2020. They set out what will happen following changes to the ...

Media releases

• • Midwifery
  • Safe high quality care
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • MBRRACE
  • Stillbirth
  • Neonatal Death
  • RCOG - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Safety

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‘Must do everything possible to prevent perinatal deaths says RCM on MBRRACE report’

04 October 2019 The latest MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report for UK Perinatal Deaths for Births has been published this week (Thursday 10th of September). This is the fifth MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report ad provides ...