Position statements and letters by the RCOG
2025
- Climate change and women’s health - January 2025
- Multiagency Call for urgent action by parliament to protect women’s essential reproductive rights - January 2025
- Women’s health priorities for the 10 Year Health Plan - March 2025
2024
- Racial and ethnic equality in women’s health - October 2024
- Poverty, deprivation and women’s health - July 2024
- RCOG and BGCS policy position: Gynaecological cancers - May 2024
- Guidance for healthcare staff on involvement of the police following abortion and pregnancy loss - Jan 2024
2023
- Creating a Smokefree Generation - Dec 2023
- Joint position statement on coroner’s guidance no 45 - Dec 2023
- Reforming abortion law - June 2023
- Achieving success with the Women’s Health Hub (WHH) model - Joint position of the RCOG, the RCGP, the FSRH and the BMS - April 2023
- Response to International Development Committee inquiry into ‘FCDO’s approach to sexual and reproductive health’ - April 2023
- Self-managed abortion - April 2023
- Self-managed abortion (Spanish) - April 2023
- Self-managed abortion (French) - April 2023
- Self-managed abortion (Arabic) - April 2023
- Pelvic floor health - Jan 2023
- Safe access zones around abortion clinics (PDF 482kb) – Jan 2023
- Coalition of Health Professionals and Royal Colleges on SRHR joint statement on the Women and Girls Strategy
2022
- National Abortion Service Specification (PDF 502kb) – Nov 2022
- Implementing The RCPCH Guidance – “Safeguarding guidance for children and young people under 18 accessing early medical abortion services” (PFF 701kb) – Sept 2022
- Joint RCOG and FSRH statement on decriminalisation of abortion (PDF 556kb) – August 2022
- Joint statement on ‘Abortion reversal’: The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH), the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP)
- UK Government consultation on environmental targets: target proposals for air quality (PDF 649KB)
- Joint RCOG RCM FSRH BSACP statement on telemedicine safeguarding – response to April 2022 position statement from NNDHP (PDF 356kb)
- Joint BMS, FSRH, RCGP and RCOG position statement on the supply shortages of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) (PDF 386kb)
- Equitable access to maternity care for refugee, asylum seeking and undocumented migrant women
- Joint Medical Briefing for Health & Care Bill – Telemedicine for Early Medical Abortion (PDF)
- Joint letter on telemedicine to Prime Minister – RCOG and other organisations (PDF)
2021
- Increasing uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women – Joint position statement by RCOG and RCM
- RCOG submission to the DHSC Consultation on 'Making vaccination a condition of deployment in the health and wider social care sector'
- All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Menopause – Joint statement by RCOG, FSRH and BMS (PDF 635kb)
- Statement on outdoor air pollution and pregnancy (PDF 559kb)
- RCOG, BMS and FSRH Joint Response: Menopause and the workplace (PDF 563kb)
- Statement on maternity care for women in prison in England and Wales (PDF 440kb)
- Statement on virginity testing and hymenoplasty – Nov 2022 (archived, Sept 2024)
- Statement on Court of Appeal consideration of the importance of Gillick Competency (PDF 106kb)
2020
- Statement on Gillick Competency (PDF 143kb)
- RCOG & FSRH position statement on international sexual and reproductive healthcare during the coronavirus pandemic (PDF 144kb)
- RCM and RCOG joint policy statement on domestic abuse – November 2020 (PDF 391kb)
2019
- A new legal framework for abortion services in Northern Ireland (PDF 691kb)
- RCOG and FSRH Manifesto 2019 (PDF 521kb)
- FSRH and RCOG Statement on Government response to Health and Social Care Committee report on sexual health (PDF 415kb)
- RCOG, BSCCP, FSRH and Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust Joint Response: Review of Adult Screening Programmes (PDF)
- Joint response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee report on legislative proposals (PDF)
Contact
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