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Hi, everybody.

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It's Mary again, and
I'm speaking here

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with my research hat on
because it must have been quite

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distressing for you reading
some of those stories

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about how hard
midwives are facing it

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in the workforce at the moment.

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So it's not just
isolated midwives,

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and we know from our research
that midwives around the world

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are doing it really
tough at the moment.

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And I'm part of an international
consortium that's actually

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looking at the work
and health life

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balance and emotional well-being
of midwives around the world.

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And this consortium is
called the Whelm Consortium.

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So we've done research in the
United Kingdom, in New Zealand,

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in Sweden, and in
Australia, and what we know

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is using what we
call validated tools.

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So that's tools where
people are asked questions

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and those questions
are given a score

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and then the scores are
worked out to find out just

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how stressed or depressed
or burnt out the individuals

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completing those tools are.

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And what we're
finding are worryingly

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high levels of
stress and depression

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and burnouts in the
midwifery work force.

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But what we're also
seeing, interestingly,

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is that the midwives who are
working in relationship-based

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care models--

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that is, midwives who are
actually working one-on-one

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providing continuity
of care for women--

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are actually much
less stressed and much

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less likely to actually
experience burnout.

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So this is very much
a watch this space.

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The research is emerging.

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But it's important
to know that even

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though the examples
that we've given you

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are individual
accounts of midwives,

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this is a very big problem,
and we are definitely

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within our research
looking for a solution.

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One of those solutions might
be relationship-based care.

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