Support staff replacing midwives

May 28, 2007

Most cost cutting in the NHS?

But the report found that some trusts had actually removed midwife posts from wards, replacing them with maternity support staff posts.

Some maternity support staff were carrying out tasks which would normally be left for a fully-trained midwife.



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{ 1 comment }

1 Michael Davidsen May 31, 2007 at 8:43 am

Not good. I just quoted on my blog about a positive British Medical Journal study on North American midwives. Cheap substitutes may not give the results they want.

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