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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.
This alphabetical list focuses on nursing organisations whose activities relate to nursing as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in the United Kingdom. . It covers specialist associations, charities, professional organisations, regulators and support grou
The School was formed in 2008 when the nursing and midwifery college merged with the allied health sciences departments. [citation needed]The School of Nursing and Midwifery dates its history to the schools of St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London Hospital, the former of which began training in 1867, [1] formalised into a School in 1877. [2]
The London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) established in 1874 was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. [1] The patrons, vice-presidents, and members of the committee that supported and helped found the London School of Medicine for Women wanted to provide educated women with the necessary facilities for learning and practicing midwifery and other branches of ...
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London. The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school ( St. Thomas' Hospital ). [ 3 ]
A professional in midwifery is known as a midwife. A 2013 Cochrane review concluded that "most women should be offered midwifery-led continuity models of care and women should be encouraged to ask for this option although caution should be exercised in applying this advice to women with substantial medical or obstetric complications."
A pregnant woman receives a visit from a midwife in her home. A direct-entry midwife is a midwife who has become credentialed without first becoming a nurse. There are direct-entry midwifery programs that prepare students to become Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) or Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs).
The powers of the NMC are set out in the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001. [7] Membership of the council comprises 6 lay and 6 registrant members appointed by the Privy Council (United Kingdom), including at least one member from each of the four UK countries. The registrant members consist of nurses, midwives and nursing associates.