Invest in NHS say midwives responding to general election announcement

By RCM on 18 April 2017 NHS Maternity Services Pay and Agenda For Change

Today the Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a general election on June 8th 2017.

Commenting on the announcement, Jon Skewes, Director for Policy, Employment Relations and Communications at the Royal College of Midwives, said: “We want to see the next government invest in the NHS, invest in maternity services and invest in the welfare and pay of NHS staff so that they can provide safe and high quality services for the people they care for.”

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