Essex hospital to spend £1m on maternity staff

The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, is to spend £1,049,180 on maternity staff and plans to recruit 22 new posts in the midwifery team following reports of shortages.

 

A trust report found a deficit of clinical midwives, managerial positions and maternity support workers.  They added that there were currently enough front-line midwives, and the new posts would expand the team.

 

Guiseppe Labriola, the trust’s director of midwifery, said in a statement “While we currently have sufficient front-line clinical midwives in all areas, we are now growing our team with additional midwives to support our new maternity support workers, specialist midwives, and we are strengthening our clinical leadership.

 

“In total, we are investing in approximately 22 whole time equivalent posts.

 

“We are looking forward to recruiting new members of our team, developing our maternity service to benefit families for the future.”

 

The investment includes £205,822 in Ockenden funding, so called following the Ockenden report of December 2020, which looked into failings in maternity care at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust.

 

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