Outstanding and innovative midwifery was celebrated at the 2010 RCM awards yesterday.

Presenting the awards, which were held at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, was the RCM’s Patron HRH the Princess Royal.

General Secretary of the RCM Cathy Warwick hosted the ceremony, which acknowledged and highlighted the exceptional midwives and their achievements. Below are the award categories and winners.

Pampers Award for Team of the Year

ALERT: Adverse labour event review team

Margaret Rogan and Nuala Sherry, Belfast Health and Social Care trust

The Children’s Mutual Award for Excellence in Partnership Working

Winner: The BOAT (Better outcomes achieved together) at Tameside

Lesley Tones and Emma McDonough, Tameside NHS Foundation Trust

Highly commended: Infant parent perinatal service partnership (IPPS)

Sian Warriner and Gerry Byrne, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust

Pregnacare Award for Research into Practice

Getting it right at the very beginning – care bundle for the latent phase of labour

Maggie Davies and Liz Rees, Abertawe Bro Morganwg University Health Board

Johnson’s Baby Award for Excellence in Midwifery Education

Interactive puzzles for clinical midwifery education

Lyndsay Durkin, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

Pampers Student Vision Award

Midwifery study tour to South India – Debra Flynn and Gemma Slator, Thames Valley University

Observing midwives at the Carmen Suite – Shelley Lacey and Sarah Powell, University of Leeds

Elective placement to Ketchene Clinic, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Charlotte Monnelly, University of Glamorgan

Philips Avent Award for Innovation in Midwifery

Feeding matters: educating for informed choice, nurturing and inclusion

Michelle Davidson and Carolyn Worlock, NHS Lothian

Bounty Award for Promoting Normal Birth

Back to Basics

Claire Allan and Alison Talbot, NHS West Midlands

Ruth Davis Bursary, Sponsored by Bounty

2008/2009 awards: Marie Lewis and Jean Greer

2009/2010 awards: Cathy Ashwin, Pat Donovan and Ellie Jenkins

National Maternity Support Foundation Award for Bereavement Care

Care of the bereaved family

Jayne Welch and Barbara Hanson, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

National Childbirth Trust Award for Development of Services Addressing Inequalities in Health

Reaching the seldom heard women of Newham

Fiona Laird and Tracy Beeching, NHS Newham

Department of Health Award for Implementing Government Policy

Responding to Government policy and reducing failure to recognise

Kathryn Murphy and Helen Hindle, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford University, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Thompsons’ Members’ Champion Award for RCM Workplace Representative

Barbara Curtis: Nominated by Susan Beevers, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

NHS Employers Award for Excellence in Recruitment and Retention

‘What we do best’: an innovative approach to recruitment and retention in midwifery

Hilary Thomas, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Johnson’s Baby Mum’s Midwife of the Year Award

Midlands & South West: Hayley Darby, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley