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e-Petition to recruit 5,000 additional MWs

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Tangle · 25/08/2011 22:43

Apologies if this is here already - I had a look but couldn't see it.

Professor Cathy Warwick, General Secretary of the RCM, has started an E-Petition with Parliament asking the Government to set a target to recruit 5,000 more full-time equivalent MWs in England (the only part of the NHS where Parliament have any authority). Any UK citizen or anyone resident in the UK can sign, online, at direct.gov. uk/petitions/ 13716

Text of the petition is given below:

Recruit 5000 more NHS midwives in England

Responsible department: Department of Health

More babies were born in England in 2010 than in any year since 1972, whilst births to women aged 30 or older were at their highest since 1946. The NHS is desperately short of midwives, and the shortage affects every region of England. We need urgent action from the Government, including a target to recruit the equivalent of 5000 more full-time midwives. Care for women but especially babies at the very start of life should be shielded from the cuts.