This is not good enough.
Birte Harlev-Lam, Executive Director Midwife at the Royal College of Midwives told GLAMOUR: “The bottom line is we have too few midwives in the UK, particularly in England where there is a shortage of over 2,000 midwives. Understaffing compromises the delivery of safe care.”
Harlev-Lam said midwives are working their hardest “in a system that is against them” and said even “vital training is postponed” because there aren't enough staff on shift. This week, over 30 organisations representing the maternity sector signed a letter to the government, coordinated by UK charity Birthrights, calling for “urgent and meaningful intervention” to make their 2019 manifesto commitment of making the “NHS the ‘best place in the world to give birth” a reality.More than half of maternity units in England are consistently failing to meet safety standards.
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