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Invest in technology to make maternity services safer says RCM
Maternity services can deliver even safer and better care through more investment and support to use digital technology says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), calling for a Digital Midwife in every maternity service. Investing in this ...
Welsh student midwives drive race agenda forward with Welsh Government
Student midwives from Cardiff University, supported by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), last week met with Welsh health minister Vaughan Gething to call for greater action on race equality. Among the students’ proposals was an ask for ...RCM secures a significant and backdated pay rise for members in Scotland
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Scotland has secured an offer of a 4% pay increase for midwives and maternity support workers in Scotland. Crucially the RCM says the Government has agreed to backdate the pay increase to 1 December ...
Show support for NHS pay rise with posters in windows, say health unions
People across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a campaign launched today (Friday) by health unions representing more than a million health workers. Fourteen ...
Government must “reconsider urgently” 1% NHS pay proposal after Scotland offer, RCM and health unions tell PM
NHS staff in the rest of the UK will be “bewildered” as they contrast the pay offer in Scotland with plans for the rest of the UK, the 14 NHS unions have told the Prime Minister. The RCM together with representatives of 1.3 million NHS workers ...Scholarship that opens the door to research – and opportunity
The Wellbeing of Women (WoW) and Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Entry-Level Research Scholarship was pivotal in my career as a clinical academic midwife and helped me achieve my ambition to progress midwifery-led research to improve the ...New resources supporting care handover between midwives and health visitors
Having demonstrated a significant improvement in outcomes for women and babies, providing continuity of carer along the whole ‘maternity journey’ has become a key tenet of modern midwifery policy. Additional resources are needed to implement ...A welcome shot in the arm for maternity services
Last week’s announcement of an extra £96m recurrent funding for maternity care in England provides a timely and long overdue investment in safe and high quality maternity services. Most of the new monies will be allocated to boost midwife and ...A blank piece of paper
What is co-production? Equality, equity, a balance of power, the ability for communities to be involved in working together with professionals to achieve change. It’s an honest desire to value and combine the strengths, knowledge and opinions ...