The Maternity & Midwifery Hour
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 10 segments
Series 20 - Episode 1: The Midwifery Student Jobs Crisis How has it come about that there are so few jobs for student midwives? The NHS has known they were in the pipeline, on student placement, in…
Nicole StewartGuest
Neil StewartHost
Alix MorrisonGuest
People liked what they were seeing, liked what they were getting, and so we've carried it on.
This Midwifery Hour goes out free to all the subscribers to the Maternity and Midwifery Hour and to the festivals and to the forum.
On top of which, a great many of them go into Matflix, which is the catalog, the education and teaching catalog that is subscribed to by universities and hospital trusts.
So this week, in the first of the series, we're going to pick up where we really ended the summer, looking at the problems that student midwives and early career midwives are having.
And I'm joined this evening by graduate, I think, from Bournemouth within a week or two, completing her midwifery course, and by Nicole Stewart, who is one of the founders of the Early Career Network.
who are helping a great many newly qualified midwives get through those first couple of difficult years when some of the jobs and some of the support that is needed may not be there.
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People liked what they were seeing, liked what they were getting, and so we've carried it on.
This Midwifery Hour goes out free to all the subscribers to the Maternity and Midwifery Hour and to the festivals and to the forum.
On top of which, a great many of them go into Matflix, which is the catalog, the education and teaching catalog that is subscribed to by universities and hospital trusts.
So this week, in the first of the series, we're going to pick up where we really ended the summer, looking at the problems that student midwives and early career midwives are having.
And I'm joined this evening by graduate, I think, from Bournemouth within a week or two, completing her midwifery course, and by Nicole Stewart, who is one of the founders of the Early Career Network.
who are helping a great many newly qualified midwives get through those first couple of difficult years when some of the jobs and some of the support that is needed may not be there.
