- Target:
- Dept Health
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- www.apec.org.uk
Currently, midwives have often to both fund their own updating training, and take time off to complete it. There is no statutory obligation to support them. This is unacceptable.
Training in high risk pregnancy situations, like pre-eclampsia should be free, paid for, leave provided and compulsory. Recent news from senior midwives suggests midwives are stretched to breaking point. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343408/. More midwives are in training, but in the meantime those on the frontline will pay the price.
We support the APEC (Action on Pre-eclampsia) petition to the UK Dept of Health to instigate government funded updating training for all midwives in high risk pregnancy techniques such as pre-eclampsia.
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The Free training days for midwives petition to Dept Health was written by Margaret Macdonald and is in the category Health at GoPetition.