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RCM Opinion

• • OASI - Obstetric anal sphincter injuries

Supporting

OASI Care Bundle RCM and RCOG comment

24 May 2019 In 2014 the RCM and the RCOG decided that something needed to be done to address the increasing rates of OASI (obstetric anal sphincter injury). OASI has an enormous negative impact on the lives of those affected. Following a round table discussion ...

RCM Opinion

• • Student midwives

Influencing

Student Midwife Cara Evans on her elective at RCM

24 May 2019 Before making the trip down to London to carry out my elective at the Royal College of Midwives, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Despite having worked alongside the RCM at several points throughout my studies, I wanted to know exactly how the RCM ...

RCM Opinion

• • Maternal Mental health

Supporting

Guest blog: A day in the life of a perinatal programme practitioner

24 April 2019 Nikki Rhys-Jones is a specialist midwife who joined the NSPCC in 2012. Nikki has been delivering Baby Steps, a perinatal education programme, for five years and in that time she has run 69 groups in Swansea and Bridgend. She lives in Cardiff and ...

RCM Opinion

• • Awards
  • Emma's Diary
  • Midwives
  • Disabilities

Influencing

Guest blog: Brenda McCabe on winning Emma's Diary 'Mums' Midwife of the Year at RCM Awards 2019

23 April 2019 I was nominated for the RCM's Emma's Diary Mums' Midwife of the Year award' by an exceptional lady, wife and mother of two beautiful children, Sarah Griffiths. I was completely taken aback that Sarah felt my care had such a positive impact that ...

RCM Opinion

• • Equality and Diversity
  • LGBT
  • Pride Parade

Supporting

The RCM at Pride Parade London

23 April 2019 The Royal College of Midwives will be at the Pride Parade in London on Saturday 6th July 2019.

RCM Opinion

• • RCM Annual Conference
  • Safety
  • Domestic Abuse

Influencing

A place of safety - midwives helping women to vote

28 March 2019 Find out how the RCM is supporting midwives to ensure women can exercise their right to vote safely.

RCM Opinion

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

Influencing

Celebrating a decade of MSWs

27 March 2019 This April the RCM celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening up of membership to support workers in maternity. Apparently this is an anniversary celebrated by a gift of aluminium or tin but we’ll probably stick with cake.

RCM Opinion

• • Midwives

Promoting

Caring for refugee women in Europe – a new way to think about a crisis

25 March 2019 Have you ever thought about the origins of the word ‘crisis’ in our English language? We use it to describe something terrible, an intractable calamity of some kind. But in Greek – the source of our English word – it means something different, ...

RCM Opinion

• • Better Births Initiative

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Better Births 3 years on: reflections on what matters most

22 March 2019 On March 7th 2019, NHS England celebrated the three-year anniversary of the launch of the maternity policy document ‘Better Births’ in Manchester. Attending this event made me reflect on how hard maternity services have worked, and how far ...

RCM Opinion

Supporting

NW London apprenticeship project insight from Richard Griffin and June Mensah

26 February 2019 The six maternity units in North West London (NW London) employ just under 300 MSWs. Last year, the Local Maternity System (LMS), working with Health Education England, organised focus groups with maternity support workers (MSWs).