Maternity services crisis: Poll shows midwives leaving NHS due to stress and burnout 

The government has known for years that not enough midwives are being trained. People can only take the staffing pressures for so long.

The same reason why Registered Nurses are leaving.

A reduction of funds going to the NHS is to blame for this. The funding cuts have been going on since the Tories came to power 13 years ago. The NHS has always been the first casualty of the Tories rule in Britain. A reduced budget will affect the quality of care especially when there is a reduced number of staff members in any given shift or per unit or ward

All part of the plan. US private health care will come in and politicians will get paid.

They are away to Australia for better pay and working conditions. What do you expect when you have the tories privatising the nhs.

I'm a British Nurse and just left the UK 2 weeks ago because the STUPID UK Immigration denied my wife's visa to live with me in London. Although patients are suffering because staffs like me left the service, the UK Government deserves it. We get paid so little despite all that we do for the public. Now, I live in Vienna, Austria and having the time of my life with my beautiful wife who is an Industrial Engineer. 😊

Same in Australia. I was a Midwife for over 20 years and left last year because I felt totally unsafe and unsupported. I felt the women were in an unsafe environment and were also unsupported

I'm one of these mum's my baby was murdered by our hospital and my midwife left. They should have all been fired. Rest in peace LinDavid you were apart of our perfect family for 41 short days. We begged for help and were ignored. He should be turning one this December. We have been abandoned by the nhs! He should still be alive!

Nothing will happen with the Tories … they just don’t care.

And midwifery is not included in shortage occupation😅 I love the delusion.

The midwives who looked after me at ARI were all absolutely angels. I would always appreciate them.

Agree completely cqc is a shambles to be frank. Its now not fit for purpose.

O had my twin girls in 2020 in Bristol Hospital! All midwives were exceptionally good and nice! Thank you Kelly for taking care of us! You are the best!

Well I’m sure this won’t exacerbate the low birth rate problem we already have /s

13 years of Tory rule. That’s how it got to this.

Someone went into Torbay hospital for C-section! Lost lots of blood so had to have hysterectomy! As she couldn’t move properly she had to be turned etc! Next she got clots in her legs! Came home with beautiful baby girl but mother has no legs!

In the US you have the doctor on call and the nurses on shift but if you want ACTUAL care you also need a midwife AND a doula to advocate for you and ensure continuity of care. This is enormously expensive and out of reach for most women.

Yp that’s why I blessed enough to hire a private midwife my previous midwife almost left me traumatized. My mother as well as other nurses left the poorly run NHS. An influx of patients has destroyed the NHS!

Staffing, budget and pay. It's as simple as that. like the Professor said currently the NHS is in a downward spiral, and the government and NHS leaders are using foreign workers now more than ever to plug the gaps but with the ever increasing workload and same ratios (and a frankly astounding amount of vacancies) its not enough and the downward spiral continues. Pay attracts but is also pointless if the budget doesn't increase allowing ratios to increase and workload to decrease to manageable levels. The government are aware of this, the NHS leaders are aware of this but both are in agreement that the last thing they want to do is invest more money into the service albeit for different reasons. Make no mistake the NHS is dead and something awfully inadequate for the 21st century rose from its ashes and the general public suffer for it.

600 new mid wives, if they exclude all that have left in the past year. Such disingenuous use of numbers 😢

Long Hours Stress low Wages low Morale it ant rocket Science Primark here i come👎🇬🇧

I’d pay £100 per month to get NHS up to standard.

In a world full of bullshit carefree jobs that could easily not exist and nothing would change, doing a real stressful job like that of the nurse or the doctor is a form of self sacrifice that very few are willing to endure.

The system is broken. It's been like that for a while. So yes, the onus is on the parents unfortunately.

I have had the worst possible experience at Wirral Womens and Childrens Maternity Ward. The midwives lied, were rude, intimidating, couldn't even be bothered to cover their grave errors. The maternity ward also seemed to be grossly under-funded. Either that or senior management are not handling the finance budget correctly. I did not breastfeed directly as a result of how poorly the midwives treated me, my baby and husband.

An organization is only as good as its mid-management. But successful mid-management is dependent on realistic and supportive upper management.

Sad

Easy check how Portland Hospital works and make it accessible for the community.

You’ve missed Darrent valley

Only got paracetamol and ibuprofen maybe half the time I was supposed to after emergency c section. Still occasionally have nightmares about the constant agony I was in.

Hello from Sweden where it's also broken. I guess there is something common in both systems that makes them suck for parents, newborns and midwifes

But but but a VoCaTIon

Enough is enough we need a general election now.

CQC is a joke

5:10 "In a statistically insignificant poll we attempted to rig for this program just over HALF of midwives said their biggest problem the job was pay.... 87% said they were upset because their friends we leaving, which was a separate response to resources." Here CH4 are reporting that midwives aren't up to scratch, that their inadequate training and processes are costing lives. That instead of tackling those issues it's been swept under the rug and wards given a weird consumer rating system on competency that isn't transparent nor fit for purpose. Probably purposefully so. You're reporting this, rightly so, but then you ruin it by trying to turn this into a funding issue and rattling off union talking points. This report started out so well, exposing the actual incompetency and poor training of staff inside the NHS. Exposing the fatal negligence of processes and staff. The stuff of real, actual public interest. The stuff that genuinely needs to be made a big deal about. But then you paste over it with utter nonsense to distract from the issues just raised in an attempt to what, appease the union? Utterly flabbergasted, you can't make this stuff up. There's are reason Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Yankville are all looking at placing UK trained doctors, nurses and midwives on the same list as the same from India or Cuba. In desperation to fill position vacancies the UK dropped both their selection criteria and the quality of training. The criteria for previous training of immigrant doctors to register has also been lowered. Combined, these things are resulting in a fatal NHS. You don't get Lucy Letbys anywhere near a hospital when you have a robust training suitability selection process. Sunak has taken the first step to solving the problem by bringing high school education into the 20th century (not into the 21st century yet, still lagging behind). But that's going to take a decade to see those graduates come through. What the government really needs to do is lay the ground work by lifting selection criteria for medicine and healthcare courses back up to where it is supposed to be, and supplementing training of those already working inside the NHS to ensure everyone has the skills to successfully operate inside their roles. There need to be robust and fully transparent reporting processes put in place to gauge how that training is coming along, and lines in the sand where failure to perform adequately or score high enough in supplemental training leads to dismissal. I sympathise with workers but this is patient lives and safety we're talking about.

Where are the "pro-life" people out harassing women to force them to have children? Why don't they care about these children and women being hurt?

❤🎉 Cool Hippie 🎉❤😎

Aaahhh thee dont neede man!😅

Resources is not the problem unchecked monsters in post.

Give birth in the wood like before

Wow…. Another crisis…😂

brexiteers

tory mandarins thats mandatory tory mandarism

small % of the nhs staff get comfortable put on weight get lazy & reluctant to do what they used to do &a % dont look after themselves outside work hence burnout not saying all like this but some this adds to the problem if they dont look after themselves correcltly lifestyle they lead outside of work is hectic say 4 kids smoke drink etc cathy hudson & her cronies prime example of the above

Thin end of the wedge. Midwives are a dodgy dodgy bunch of people who know they are doing harm.

NHS IS NOT UP TO PAR WITH HER OECD RATINGS

Because they are wimps. I work in this role and it is hectic and busy, but i manage . Its called WORK. Get a grip and grow up and deal with it. Do you want a relaxing walk in the park? I come over here from another country snd cannot belive how uk nhs workers breakdown at the hint of a bit of hard work. Grow up, and get on with it. I can do it so theres no reason these others can't .