Event to encourage students to become midwives

Students are being encouraged to train as midwives at an event run by Hull Royal Infirmary.

Year 12 students will get a chance to experience the job by using medical simulators and talking to a member of the midwifery team.

Humber Health Partnership said the session in August was organised after a similar event in April was oversubscribed.

Helen Smith, lead midwife at the hospital, said: "We were only able to offer a limited number of places for our first event and they were snapped up very quickly."

Smith added: "We know there are many students in our area who are interested in midwifery, so we're putting on a second event to give them this amazing insight into this fantastically rewarding career."

The event will see potential students involved in exercises using mannequins, including labour and delivery, a caesarean section in theatre and maternity care on a ward including breastfeeding and postnatal recovery.

Career advice staff at local schools and colleges will be contacted with details of the 12 August event and how students can apply for a place, the Humber Health Board said.

A recent Royal College of Midwives survey of newly qualified members found that almost one in three (31%) had not secured jobs.

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