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IDM 2021: keeping midwifery on the global agenda
Dear midwives, colleagues and friends, Happy International Day of the Midwife! Today we will once again put midwifery and women's sexual reproductive health and rights on the global agenda.
Follow the data in maternity care
Today marks International Day of the Midwife and this year’s theme is Follow the data: invest in midwives. We know maternity data is imperative to the care we provide. Not only is it important to call for more investment from the Government to ...
What midwifery research means to me: a reflection
Research forms the basis of evidence-based practice and it is important that within midwifery we continue to question why things are done the way they are in order to improve upon current standards.RCM calls for new maternity strategy for Northern Ireland
Research forms the basis of evidence-based practice and it is important that within midwifery we continue to question why things are done the way they are in order to improve upon current standards.IDM 2021 – it’s in everything we do
On 5 May we celebrated International Day of the Midwife (IDM), which has always been a big occasion for the RCM. IDM is our chance to celebrate the best vocation in the world, but we also get to give thanks, show appreciation and celebrate our branches ...
Wales Midwifery Leadership and Development Programme
As with so many other initiatives, the programme went virtual in 2020. Even so, the steering group that runs it was anxious that it would not be successful, and that people might not be able to sign up to it – we were after all in the middle of a pandemic ...
Avoiding an identity crisis
I am going to have to come clean. I love watching Call the Midwife. I try not to watch it, but I just get hooked in again and again. I see the history of midwifery unravel before me. This week it dawned on me that the midwives are looking more nurse like ...
Wasting no time when it comes to pay
It’s been a whole month since I wrote my last blog on pay. In one month, we’ve seen Scotland members accept a headline offer of four per cent. We’ve seen the majority of the public call out the measly one per cent offer for England. We’ve seen celebrities ...Midwifery matters at the NMC
Someone recently said that our approach to midwifery practice at the NMC should be to “think once, think twice, think midwife!” With more than 39,000 midwives on our permanent register, we recognise how important it is to have a positive and ...