Ask the Midwife provides fully qualified advice on pregnancy and baby health – and meets a growing trend for women to consult apps during pregnancy
The findings of a new NCT report, which revealed that tens of thousands of women were having to seek help at accident and emergency (A&E) departments or with their GP because they cannot reach a midwife, do not come as a surprise to Hannah Harvey.
Harvey has been a midwife for five years. She says that while she and her colleagues care deeply about the women they look after, a nationwide shortage of midwives and government cutbacks to training bursaries mean they often struggle to provide the necessary support to new mums. According to the report by the NCT (pdf) and National Federation of Women’s Institutes, 36% of women who were not able to see a midwife as often as they required postnatally said that it caused them a great deal of concern while almost a third (31%) said that it resulted in a delay of a health problem (for them or their baby) being diagnosed and treated. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) estimates England has a shortfall of 3,500 midwives.
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