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Mothers and babies are dying in childbirth due to staffing crisis
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MOTHERS and babies are dying in childbirth as a result of a staffing crisis in midwifery, the annual conference of North West TUC heard on Saturday.
Royal College of Midwives (RCM) delegate Lorna Forshaw told the conference in Warrington that a report in November “showed a significant increase in maternity deaths is happening – and that is now.”
She said that midwifery services in England were short of 2,000 midwives.
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