📣 The Midwives-in-Training Research and Journal Review Club 2025/26 schedule is out now📣 Open to all student midwives, MITRJRC is your chance to enhance your skills, expand your knowledge and make an impact! Discover our upcoming events here: buff.ly/7Im2h0Z

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:* **“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I

Emma Healey, a midwifery student at University of Leicester, recently joined the RCM for an elective placement. As well as seeing the inner workings of the College, Emma found some echoes of the past. buff.ly/HFYa2Dx

"It’s an absolute disgrace that midwives and MSWs in #NorthernIreland have been left in limbo one again considering their colleagues across England and Wales received their uplift in August, which was back dated to 1 April" rcm.org.uk/media-releases… RCM_NI

'We need support from the trade union movement. We need you to help us to continue to raise the issues, support our solutions and be on the side of every woman and every baby whose lives are endangered by inequality' says josephine oamen rcm.org.uk/news/2025/09/r… Trades Union Congress

MSW and RCM Activist Chrissy Jones seconding the Royal College of Podiatry motion on ‘paid work-time for all nursing parents’ Trades Union Congress Congress this afternoon 🙌 #unionswinningatwork #TUC2025

If I'm not Scottish how come I can rhyme in Scots? Laurence Fox, a bawheid radge, Racist blether, deidbeat dad. Failed at actin, daein it bad, Now he’s jist a daft wee lad

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ A reminder of real patriotism.

OUH today issued a letter to women and their families who are currently using maternity services at OUH, or who have used them in the past, about our inclusion in the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation. Read the letter in full ⬇️ 🔗 orlo.uk/HdSLQ

General secretary of the RCM Gill Walton said: “Our members pay uplift this year was one of the lowest in the public sector and it has left them frustrated with the entire PRB process." nursingtimes.net/workforce/heal…

MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children. Read more: bit.ly/4mFDBFK

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What does the Government’s rapid review into maternity services mean for you as a midwife or MSW? The RCM is by your side. If you're working in one of the 14 named Trusts and have questions, we've answered them in a new FAQ. Read more: buff.ly/bQdsVVc

As the NHS England consultation on the draft professional strategy for nursing and midwifery closes, RCM Chief Executive Gill Walton sets out why the College has chosen not to participate. Read more in our latest blog, Midwifery deserves more. buff.ly/ltQPAeW

So much experience and passion in the room. Great to be with Royal College of Midwives 💙 activists.

Join us and @Coppafeelpeople on 23 October for an online event. This webinar will cover a whole host of topics including pregnancy-associated breast cancer, common breast problems and provide you with information and resources. Book your ticket now: buff.ly/0KKXphy

October is Stoptober and since February 2024 the Maternity Smoke Free Pregnancy Service in Essex has been transforming lives - helping almost 230 families quit smoking and give their babies the best possible start in life Read Samantha and Dean's story at orlo.uk/tvZA3

Earlier this year, my wife and I had an early miscarriage. It was a traumatic event and after it happened we agreed that we would share our story, to raise awareness and help others in similar situations find support. This is my speech during a recent Parliamentary debate on

It's important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas: ghosts terrorising rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more.