The International Confederation of Midwives have recently launched a new database that points globally to the work of midwives. Dr Jenny Hall, Editor for the Maternity and Midwifery forum explains wha...

As climate change intensifies and humanitarian crises grow more frequent, midwives are at the forefront, delivering life-saving sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and family planning (FP) services in the most challenging environments. This timely and solution-focused webinar, hosted by ICFP and ICM, will spotlight their leadership, lived experiences, and the critical intersections between climate, crisis response, and SRHR. It will also explore how stronger collaboration across sectors can support more resilient, equitable, and rights-based health systems.

Explore the Hub: https://datahub.internationalmidwives.org The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), in partnership with Direct Relief, has launched...

Research brief explores how laws and regulations block access to quality and respectful maternal health care. Research brief explores how laws and regulations block access to quality and respectful maternal health care.

The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), in partnership with Direct Relief, is proud to launch the Midwives’ Data Hub—a user-friendly, data-driven platform designed to elevate the visibility of midwives and sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health (SRMNAH) indicators in global health systems. 

ICM welcomes FNOPO as our newest affiliate member, strengthening global collaboration and advancing midwifery through regulation, advocacy, and partnership.

La FNOPO è membro affiliato della Confederazione Internazionale delle Ostetriche, la Presidente Vaccari: “Un riconoscimento internazionale per la nostra professione e una nuova spinta per il suo futur...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) today released new guidance to help countries adopt and expand midwifery models of care - where midwives serve as the main care provider for women and babies throug...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released new guidance to help countries adopt and expand midwifery models of care - where midwives serve as the main care provider for women and babies throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period.

The timely Editorial1 on prioritising and investing in maternal health captures the scale of the challenges facing UK maternity services. However, there are important gaps in the analysis and the wide...

Protect our Birth Choices - Save the Carmen Birth Centre, St George’s University Hospitals

**Please note that this event was previously planned for 29 April and has now been moved to 6 May due to the pre-election perio...

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With the partial eclipse visible across the UK recently, space has once again featured in the RCM leadership webinar series. Following the hugely successful webinar with NASA in 2024, the European Spa...

Investing in midwives is a cost-effective and sustainable strategy to improve maternal and newborn health and well-being and reduce mortality. There is ample evidence to show that care provided by midwives is women centric, significantly

With NHS England and NHS Improvement now a single entity, having seven regional teams to carry out work on the ground, what can be learned from previous incarnations of the NHS that relied on regional...

Advocacy Toolkit and Resources Pack

MPs gathered in Westminster last Tuesday (26 February) for a 90-minute debate on maternity services in England. We took full opportunity of the debate to amplify the voice of members through briefing…