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27/03/2018
The plan begins with 650 more midwives in training next year, a new defined MSW role and introducing new training routes into midwifery.
The government is also promising that the majority of women will receive care from the same midwives throughout their pregnancy, labour and birth by 2021.
The plans are part of Jeremy Hunt's drive to make the NHS the safest place in the world to give birth.
He is due to speak at the ‘Maternity Transformation Programme: 2 Years On' today, 27 March, and is expected to announce that steps towards achieving this ambition will start with 20% of women benefitting from a continuity of carer model by March 2019.
The government will be working with key partners such as the RCM to develop new training routes into midwifery, so that talented support workers can develop and move quickly to become registered midwives and help the midwifery profession attract and retain talented staff.
RCM chief executive Gill Walton said that the announcement is a "very long overdue" acknowledgement by the government that England’s maternity services need more midwives. She highlighted how the RCM has been campaigning to get successive governments to eradicate the midwife shortage for well over a decade.
She added: "It will come as some relief to NHS midwives who have been working incredibly hard, for many years, with increasing demands and inadequate resources. This is the start of a journey that will enable midwives to begin moving to more innovative ways of caring for women. It is also a positive step towards safer services."
Gill said that the commitment to more continuity of care is good news because the evidence is clear that this is the best way to provide the safest and highest quality care for women and their babies.
"The priority for all maternity services is ensuring every woman has a named midwife during pregnancy and one-to-one care in labour. This is what maternity services are currently struggling to provide universally and consistently and this is why the new staff will be so crucial. When services are confident of this then they can move on to greater continuity of care for women.
"While we welcome the commitment to continuity of care, it is ambitious. The additional midwives who start training next year won't be qualified midwives working in our maternity services until 2022. That will make a difference and it will begin to have an impact on the workload of midwives, but it will not transform maternity services right now. It will take seven or eight years before all of the new midwives announced today will be actually working in our maternity services. This will be offset to some extent by the extra MSWs promised. This will help make the staffing overall feel better, though we need to see details about how many more MSWs there will be."
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Government Pledges More Midwives
The health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a range of measures for England's maternity services, including a plan to train more than 3000 extra midwives over four years.The plan begins with 650 more midwives in training next year, a new defined MSW role and introducing new training routes into midwifery.
The government is also promising that the majority of women will receive care from the same midwives throughout their pregnancy, labour and birth by 2021.
The plans are part of Jeremy Hunt's drive to make the NHS the safest place in the world to give birth.
He is due to speak at the ‘Maternity Transformation Programme: 2 Years On' today, 27 March, and is expected to announce that steps towards achieving this ambition will start with 20% of women benefitting from a continuity of carer model by March 2019.
The government will be working with key partners such as the RCM to develop new training routes into midwifery, so that talented support workers can develop and move quickly to become registered midwives and help the midwifery profession attract and retain talented staff.
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RCM chief executive Gill Walton said that the announcement is a "very long overdue" acknowledgement by the government that England’s maternity services need more midwives. She highlighted how the RCM has been campaigning to get successive governments to eradicate the midwife shortage for well over a decade.
She added: "It will come as some relief to NHS midwives who have been working incredibly hard, for many years, with increasing demands and inadequate resources. This is the start of a journey that will enable midwives to begin moving to more innovative ways of caring for women. It is also a positive step towards safer services."
Gill said that the commitment to more continuity of care is good news because the evidence is clear that this is the best way to provide the safest and highest quality care for women and their babies.
"The priority for all maternity services is ensuring every woman has a named midwife during pregnancy and one-to-one care in labour. This is what maternity services are currently struggling to provide universally and consistently and this is why the new staff will be so crucial. When services are confident of this then they can move on to greater continuity of care for women.
"While we welcome the commitment to continuity of care, it is ambitious. The additional midwives who start training next year won't be qualified midwives working in our maternity services until 2022. That will make a difference and it will begin to have an impact on the workload of midwives, but it will not transform maternity services right now. It will take seven or eight years before all of the new midwives announced today will be actually working in our maternity services. This will be offset to some extent by the extra MSWs promised. This will help make the staffing overall feel better, though we need to see details about how many more MSWs there will be."
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