Midwifery has greatest shortfall in healthcare sector

Checkpoint

Midwifery has the greatest shortfall of the health care sector, to fill the gaps an extra 300 students need to graduate a year. But one new graduate has told Checkpoint financial pressure makes the degree unsustainable, over 70 percent of her class had dropped out by the time she graduated, Louise Ternouth reports. On her first day, Beth Fisher-Evans says students were told having a job on top of studying would be impossible. She says getting her degree was a constant juggle of classwork on top of placement hours - when a patient could go into birth at any time.