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Exhausted midwife speaks of "absolute hell" amid plummeting staff numbers and more pressure than ever
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukMidwives across the country took to the streets this weekend to protest amid a ‘maternity crisis in the UK’. Maternity staff, doulas, health care professionals and families held vigils on Sunday, November 21, desperate for governmental change as ‘midwives are leaving their profession, maternity units are closing, and infant and maternal morbidity and mortality is on the rise’, claim the March with Midwives organisers.
Midwifery is being ‘eroded’ as a profession, says the national action group, as warnings of a midwife ‘exodus’ are pouring in from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).
Statistics back up the concerns of those on the frontline. A report published by the NHS in July revealed that the number of NHS midwives working in England in
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