Brexit risk: more than a quarter of midwives at some London hospitals are EU nationals
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By Andy Jones
More than a quarter of midwives in some London maternity units are from the European Union, new analysis reveals, while recruitment from the continent has plummeted since the Brexit vote.
Sixteen hospital trusts in the capital currently rely on the EU for more than 10% of their midwives, shows the most recent data from NHS Digital (see table opposite. And at two trusts – University College Hospitals (UCL) and North Middlesex University Hospital – more than a quarter of midwives are EU nationals.
Meanwhile just 33 midwives arrived from the European Economic Area (EEA) in the last year up to March 2018, which was a fall of nearly 90% from the year before the referendum, according to data from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Over the same period, 234 EEA midwives left their posts. This drastic decline is sharpening an existing staffing crisis, with 3,500 midwife posts currently empty.
The referendum result has a major impact on recruitment, according to Danny Mortimer,...
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