From Brexit to the birth rate: why midwives are leaving the NHS – and causing a crisis

From Brexit to the birth rate: why midwives are leaving the NHS – and causing a crisis   Almost 3,000 midwives ended their careers in England last year, and only 2,000 came out of university to replace them. Vacancy levels are set to keep rising, so why do the numbers no longer add up? So many midwives are quitting the NHS that the 2,000-plus would-be midwives coming out of university each year are making almost no dent in the profession’s longstanding and widespread workforce shortage.
Despite all those new graduates, the total number of what the NHS calls full-time equivalent midwives working in the NHS in England rose by only 67 last year to 21,601. In England last year, almost 3,000 existing midwives decided that delivering babies and caring for them and their mothers was no longer for them. The Guardian