{"id":52970,"date":"2023-11-19T16:45:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=52970"},"modified":"2023-11-19T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T16:45:31","slug":"midwife-shortages-causing-birth-delays-with-mothers-and-babies-lives-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/19\/midwife-shortages-causing-birth-delays-with-mothers-and-babies-lives-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwife shortages causing birth delays with mothers and babies\u2019 \u2018lives at risk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37298\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/midwife-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/midwife-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/midwife-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/midwife-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/midwife-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/midwife-360x180.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/midwife.jpg 1740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>he Government must urgently tackle midwife shortages within the NHS that are at the root of life-threatening delays in maternity units, a Labour MP has warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/midwife-shortages-causing-birth-delays-with-mothers-and-babies-lives-at-risk\/ar-AA1kawvH?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=fb3feb3a242c43dd90479542ca2545f0&amp;ei=32\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Government must urgently tackle midwife shortages within the NHS that are at the root of life-threatening delays in maternity units, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/midwife1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52972,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52970\/revisions\/52972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}