division_name: Health and Care Bill &#8212; Clause 35 - Report on assessing and meeting workforce needs
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b916.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Illness is&#8230;a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b919.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am extremely concerned about the crisis in maternity care. This isn&#8217;t caused by Covid-19&#8212;the systemic failings have been crippling the service for a generation&#8212;but the pandemic has made a bad situation worse.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b919.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am being harmed, my clients are being harmed. Staff are being harmed. For every 30 newly qualified midwives, 29 are leaving. Parents are reporting bullying and coercion. Threats are being used to ensure compliance. Unnecessary medical interventions are at epidemic levels. Trauma&#8212;amongst parents and midwives&#8212;is rife.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b923.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is clear that workforce planning has been led by the funding envelope available to health and social care rather than by demand and the capacity required to service that demand.&#8221;</p>