Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Maternity services crisis: Poll shows midwives leaving NHS due to stress and burnout" video.
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5:10 "In a statistically insignificant poll we attempted to rig for this program just over HALF of midwives said their biggest problem the job was pay.... 87% said they were upset because their friends we leaving, which was a separate response to resources."
Here CH4 are reporting that midwives aren't up to scratch, that their inadequate training and processes are costing lives. That instead of tackling those issues it's been swept under the rug and wards given a weird consumer rating system on competency that isn't transparent nor fit for purpose. Probably purposefully so.
You're reporting this, rightly so, but then you ruin it by trying to turn this into a funding issue and rattling off union talking points. This report started out so well, exposing the actual incompetency and poor training of staff inside the NHS. Exposing the fatal negligence of processes and staff. The stuff of real, actual public interest. The stuff that genuinely needs to be made a big deal about.
But then you paste over it with utter nonsense to distract from the issues just raised in an attempt to what, appease the union? Utterly flabbergasted, you can't make this stuff up.
There's are reason Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Yankville are all looking at placing UK trained doctors, nurses and midwives on the same list as the same from India or Cuba. In desperation to fill position vacancies the UK dropped both their selection criteria and the quality of training. The criteria for previous training of immigrant doctors to register has also been lowered. Combined, these things are resulting in a fatal NHS.
You don't get Lucy Letbys anywhere near a hospital when you have a robust training suitability selection process. Sunak has taken the first step to solving the problem by bringing high school education into the 20th century (not into the 21st century yet, still lagging behind). But that's going to take a decade to see those graduates come through.
What the government really needs to do is lay the ground work by lifting selection criteria for medicine and healthcare courses back up to where it is supposed to be, and supplementing training of those already working inside the NHS to ensure everyone has the skills to successfully operate inside their roles. There need to be robust and fully transparent reporting processes put in place to gauge how that training is coming along, and lines in the sand where failure to perform adequately or score high enough in supplemental training leads to dismissal. I sympathise with workers but this is patient lives and safety we're talking about.
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