Mainstream media representations of midwifery exist on a binary, with headlines either reporting long hours and staff shortages or recapping an episode of Call The Midwife. The realities of the job ...

A frustrated midwife has revealed why she has left the NHS to offer women and babies the care she believes they deserve. Last month, North Devon District Hospital (NDDH) was ordered to improve its ...

Midwifery leaders have outlined the numerous technical challenges facing maternity care as the NHS implements its 10 year health plan.

When Liz Truss made her first speech as prime minister, she vowed to make the NHS one of her top priorities amidst chronic funding and staff shortages and disastrous A&E waiting times. Her pledge also ...

NHS Highland has lost 40,000 nurse and midwife staff days due to a “growing mental health crisis” in the last five years, ...

"Gray’s highly personal response and desire for change is to be welcomed – and the whole country is behind him in striving ...

A former midwife told how she quit the NHS due to 'overwhelming' pressure which left her fearing an imminent clinical accident. Piroska Cavell, 55, from Whitstable, Kent, left in 2019 after working in ...

A nurse who was found to have contributed to the death of a newborn has been allowed to deliver babies again. Elizabeth Hilbayuded was removed from the Nursing and Midwifery Council register in 2016 ...

A midwife who came back to the NHS after a 20 year break from the profession has opened up about her emotional return. Daksha Mistry fell in love with midwifery when doing her training in the late ...

A midwife who told a patient that terrorists could contaminate milk formula to "kill the babies" has been struck off. Anna Semenenko made the remark when trying to persuade a patient to breastfeed.

Viewers of the BBC series Call the Midwife may remember an episode in season six where Nurse Dyer encounters a patient with a striking condition: she lacks any visible genitalia. “I can scarcely ...

Midwives across the country are desperate for the prime minister's promises to materialise into real help as they continue to face crippling work conditions that leave them struggling to deliver the ...