Do you need to have a nursing qual to do midwifery training?

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Yes I believe you do. You do your general nurse training, and then after the first standard part of the nurses training you can branch off into midwifery. Your best bet is to get info from the RCN (royal college of nursing) if you google them they'll probably be able to give you more info. I seem to remember there being a Royal college of midwifery too, and the royal college of obstetrics. Any of those might be able to help you further.

my friend went straight from being a medical secretary to midwife training, no nurse training in between

no, you can go straight onto a course without any nursing training

if you qualified nurse you can do 18 months midwife training,

if not nurse you can do 3 years midwifery training- with this you couldnt work as a general nurse unless you then did another 18 months general nursing training

All change then - it's been a bit since I worked for the NHS

It depends no training needed for a 3 yr course but if you are already a rgn then you can train in 18 months. To get on 3yr couse you need 5 gcse min and recent academic study if it has been a while.

Thanks guys.
Did google but confusing.
pt courses and ft courses and dependant on where you live.

www.studentmidwives.co.uk is very useful.