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The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is a British midwives organisation founded in 1881 by Louisa Hubbard and Zepherina Veitch. It has existed under its present name since 1947, and is the United Kingdom's only trade union or professional organisation for midwives and those that support them. Gill Walton is the current Chief Executive. [1]
She has been the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives from 2008 until 2017, and is also Chair of Trustees of BPAS, one of the UK's leading providers of abortion services. She received a nursing degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1975, and completed a one-year midwifery course at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in 1976. [1]
Professor Lesley Ann Page CBE, MSc, BA, RM, RMT (born 1944) is a British midwife and academic, and was President of the Royal College of Midwives. Page qualified in midwifery at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, Edinburgh, in 1966. [1]
Cowell, B. and Wainwright, D. Behind the Blue Door: The History of the Royal College of Midwives 1881–1981 (1981) London: Bailliere Tindall. Davis, C., ed. Rewriting Nursing History (1980) London: Croom Helm. Dingwall, Robert, Anne Marie Rafferty, Charles Webster, eds. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing (1988) online
International Network of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses [founded and run by UK nurses] [44] Kenyan Nurses And Midwives Association UK (KENMA UK)(2021-) [45] King's College Hospital Nurses' League (1924-) [46] London Network of Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Group (LNNM) (1996-) [47] Lung Cancer Nursing UK (LCNUK formerly NLCFN) (1999-) [48]
In addition, she served as president of the Royal College of Midwives from 1987 to 1994, having become a member of the Council in 1970. [1] She was a champion for keeping midwifery as a dedicated, independent profession, rather than a sub-field of nursing. [3]
There are over 900 bodies which have a UK royal charter. [1] ... Royal College of Midwives; ... University College London;
Dame Karlene Cecile Davis, DBE (born 10 October 1946) [1] is a former General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Midwifery, Regional Representative for Europe in the International Confederation of Midwives, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a member of the Wellbeing Council at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.