'Midwife crisis is looming'.Byline: By LAURIE HANNA MIDWIVES at one hospital fear the pressure of overwork overwork the condition produced by working a draft animal or working dog, an eventing or endurance horse too hard. See also exhaustion. may cause them to make mistakes. Staff say morale is at an all-time low because they are so exhausted. And they advise new mums to go home as fast as possible because they will get better care from district nurses. One midwife said: "We are going home desperate, in tears every night." A spokeswoman for midwives at the hospital in North Wales North Wales (known in some archaic texts as Northgalis) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England. said: "We are very concerned. We are on absolute minimum staffing for every shift. "We are at crisis point. Something is going to go wrong one of these days." Cost-cutting at Glan Clwyd hospital in Bodelwyddan, Flintshire, has meant a recruitment freeze. Jill Galvani, of Conwy and Denbighshire NHS Trust, said: "We are concerned by the issues raised. We have plans to conduct a review of the midwifery midwifery (mĭd`wī'fərē), art of assisting at childbirth. The term midwife for centuries referred to a woman who was an overseer during the process of delivery. In ancient Greece and Rome, these women had some formal training. service." |
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