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Midwives

Life as a midwife aid worker: 'Plagued by vivid dreams of the patients I felt I had failed'
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Life as a midwife aid worker: 'Plagued by vivid dreams of the patients I felt I had failed'

For Anna Kent, writing was a way of processing the emotional burden of frontline aid work - the lives she saved and the ones she couldn't.
Underfunded and overworked: Midwives reveal extent of NHS maternity crisis
Maternity crisis

Underfunded and overworked: Midwives reveal extent of NHS maternity crisis

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