{"id":774,"date":"2016-06-06T08:49:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T07:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2016-06-09T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T08:19:43","slug":"exhausted-midwives-making-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/exhausted-midwives-making-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhausted Midwives Making Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maternity staff in the UK have admitted they are so exhausted they are making mistakes that could harm patients. <\/span><\/p>\n

A total of 1,361 maternity staff responded to a survey conducted by the Royal College of Midwives. <\/span><\/p>\n

The survey aimed to better understand the health, safety and wellbeing of midwives, student midwives and maternity staff working in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n

The results revealed that 52% of midwives had witnessed an error, near miss or other incident in the past month alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am worried about making a mistake at work because I am exhausted\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The same number agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: \u201cI am worried about making a mistake at work because I am exhausted\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Staff shortages, increasing demands and dwindling resources were all cited as causing stress, with 48% of maternity workers saying that stress was a daily feature of their working life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many reported working long hours, foregoing entitled breaks and going without food or drink. <\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, 62% said they felt dehydrated at work because there was no time to drink, and only 21% said they took their breaks \u2018all of most of the time\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Royal College of Midwives described the findings of the survey as \u201cdisturbing\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

Poor maternity care<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you were harmed as a result of substandard medical care, please get in touch with us at Glynns Solicitors. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maternity staff in the UK have admitted they are so exhausted they are making mistakes that could harm patients. A total of 1,361 maternity staff responded to a survey conducted by the Royal College of Midwives. The survey aimed to better understand the health, safety and wellbeing of midwives, student midwives and maternity staff working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[857,856,854,855,288],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","tag-exhausted-midwives","tag-maternity-errors","tag-midwife-mistakes","tag-midwives-making-mistakes","tag-nhs-mistakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}