Baroness Valerie Amos

Hospital midwives 'made to work double shifts and stay awake for 24 hours' in major NHS probe

Hospital midwives 'made to work double shifts and stay awake for 24 hours' in major NHS probe Care Quality Commission reports that hospital midwives were made to work dangerous shift patterns after ‘staff told us this meant they were awake for more than 24 hours’ Hospital midwives were told to work double shifts with no sleep, meaning they were awake for more than 24 hours, an NHS inspector has found. The dangerously long shifts were identified at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, which was...