In article , Sausage
King writes
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It is. There are only so many midwives. You don't train them overnight.
Your ridiculous notion of just going private and then all will be solved is
very silly. All it will mean is that rich people benefit over the poor.
The midwives will be tempted over to the private sector at the expensive of
the real sector.

This is a school boy error.

You do not train Midwives overnight but overnight you do persuade them
back into the profession by offering market levels of remuneration.

The aren't leaving because of the money though !.
PS Like the population as a whole, the nursing profession is well into
its 50's and when they start retiring and collecting their fully
inflation proof pensions (which few private employers can afford) over
the next 5 years, who is going to replace them ?. The nursing profession
shot itself in the foot by going for graduate entry only. Now thousands
of very willing people find they can only work as nursing auxiliaries
with no chance of promotion.
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Andrew