Thursday 2 June 2016

Midwife burn-out leading to safety fears says RCM launching new campaign

Midwife burn-out leading to safety fears says RCM launching new campaign Over half (52%) of midwives and maternity support workers (MSW) who responded to a survey said that they had seen an error, near miss or incident that could have hurt service users in the last month. Half of the respondents also strongly agreed or agreed with the statement ‘I am worried about making a mistake at work because I am exhausted’.

These are some of the disturbing results of a UK survey around health, safety and wellbeing of midwives, student midwives and MSWs, published by the Royal College of Midwives

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