Midwife shortage is ‘putting mums in peril’, experts warn 

Midwife shortage is ‘putting mums in peril’ because exhausted staff are forced to work overtime, experts warn Royal College of Midwives warned staff shortages compromising delivery safety The experts warned workers are ‘exhausted’ and ‘demoralised’ over shortages The RCM also released five ‘wishes’ for 2021, including having enough midwives By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 01:13 … Read more

Midwife shortage is ‘putting mums in peril’, experts warn 

Midwife shortage is ‘putting mums in peril’ because exhausted staff are forced to work overtime, experts warn Royal College of Midwives warned staff shortages compromising delivery safety The experts warned workers are ‘exhausted’ and ‘demoralised’ over shortages The RCM also released five ‘wishes’ for 2021, including having enough midwives By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 01:13 … Read more

Drink-driving midwife, 50, who hit boy, 17, leaving him with fractured skull allowed to keep job

Drink-driving midwife, 50, who hit talented sportsman, 17, leaving him with fractured skull and brain bleed after friend’s 50th birthday bash is allowed to keep her job Sarah Hogg smashed into Alex Moffitt in Lydiate, Merseyside, on March 23, 2019  She served half of 12 month sentence, referred to Nursing and Midwifery Council Hogg expressed ‘considerable … Read more

Drink-driving midwife, 50, who hit boy, 17, leaving him with fractured skull allowed to keep job

Drink-driving midwife, 50, who hit talented sportsman, 17, leaving him with fractured skull and brain bleed after friend’s 50th birthday bash is allowed to keep her job Sarah Hogg smashed into Alex Moffitt in Lydiate, Merseyside, on March 23, 2019  She served half of 12 month sentence, referred to Nursing and Midwifery Council Hogg expressed ‘considerable … Read more

Baby girl brain-damaged after mid-wife ‘banned for incompetence’ deliver her

Baby girl is left brain-damaged after hospital allowed mid-wife who was ‘banned for incompetence’ to help deliver her A baby girl was left with cerebral palsy after a midwife banned delivered her Barts Health Trust in London admitting legal responsibility for the blunders Sophie Addo, 58, was ‘excluded’ from working in the hospital just days earlier … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Midwife, 30, dies three weeks after father

An ‘inspirational and much-loved midwife’ has died from coronavirus three weeks after the death of her father.   Tributes were paid to Safaa Alam, 30, who passed away yesterday after contracting the infection while working at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. She had been a midwife there for six years after beginning her career as a nurse and … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Midwife, 30, dies three weeks after father

An ‘inspirational and much-loved midwife’ has died from coronavirus three weeks after the death of her father.   Tributes were paid to Safaa Alam, 30, who passed away yesterday after contracting the infection while working at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. She had been a midwife there for six years after beginning her career as a nurse and … Read more

Rupert Grint surprises NHS midwife during UK’s One World: Together At Home

Rupert Grint says NHS midwife is ‘truly inspiring’ as he and Miriam Margolyes surprise the Harry Potter fan during UK’s One World: Together At Home By Katie Storey For Mailonline Published: 20:22 BST, 19 April 2020 | Updated: 20:29 BST, 19 April 2020 He’s best known for playing Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies … Read more

Midwife, 54, dies after testing positive for coronavirus 

The first NHS midwife to die after testing positive for coronavirus has been named as 54-year-old Lynsay Coventry.  Ms Coventry’s family said their ‘hearts are broken at the loss of our loving, wonderful and caring mum, sister, daughter and grandmother’. She is the latest NHS worker to die during the epidemic, which has infected 47,806 and … Read more

Midwife, 54, dies after testing positive for coronavirus 

The first NHS midwife to die after testing positive for coronavirus has been named as 54-year-old Lynsay Coventry.  Ms Coventry’s family said their ‘hearts are broken at the loss of our loving, wonderful and caring mum, sister, daughter and grandmother’. She is the latest NHS worker to die during the epidemic, which has infected 47,806 and … Read more