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Don't leave midwives out in the cold

The NHS needs more midwives – and must avoid hasty changes to their role driven by current financial pressures, warns the Royal College of Midwives in a brand new report.

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Maternity services are facing increasing pressures - a rising birth rate, an increasing number of complex pregnancies and births, and changes in practice that are leading to more inductions.

And this year we had the publication of Better Births, the report of the national maternity review in England. The report states that maternity services in England are expected to develop services that are safer, more accessible and which offer women more personalised care.