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🔴The majority of midwives plan to leave the NHS within the next year putting mothers and babies at risk, a survey by the Royal College of Midwives has found
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📈Almost three fifths (57%) of respondents said they would quit over the next 12 months and 5% had already left.

➡️Eight in 10 of those who wanted to leave cited understaffing

The “midwife exodus” will have a detrimental impact on workforce planning and affect maternity services’ ability to provide “acceptable levels of safe, quality care”, the RCM said

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A majority (92%) of the 1,588 midwives and maternity support workers surveyed said they do not feel valued by the Government.

🔴54% said they did not feel valued by their employer

📊The highest rates of job dissatisfaction were among midwives who have been working in the NHS for five years or fewer, the survey found

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Gill Watson, the RCM’s general secretary and chief executive, said it is “deeply worrying” that staff feel unable to provide “safe, quality care” due to understaffing

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🗣️One midwife, only identified as Julia, said staffing levels were in a “tragic state”.

“We’re reducing the time we give to women, having to close facilities, reduce antenatal education, postnatal visits cut to a minimum”

🔴Anna, another midwife, said “burnout” among midwives is common and their physical health is “suffering”.

“I see women receiving poor care by an overstretched service and we are all too tired to fight for what we believe in”

Read the full report from @lizrob92 👇
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