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Petition update, 20 October 2008

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There are ambitious plans for NHS maternity services in England. By 2009 all women will have choice over where and how they give birth, and support from the same midwife throughout pregnancy. To achieve this we must tackle the chronic shortage of midwives. There is more and more evidence of vacant posts not being recruited to, places for student midwives and training budgets being cut, and much more. What is worse, many newly-qualified midwives find it impossible to find work as a midwife. This is terrible outcome for a new midwife after years of study. It is also a blow to taxpayers, who invest £15,000 on each student midwife every year. A one-year jobs guarantee for newly-qualified midwives would ensure that they are brought into the profession. This is already happening in Scotland, thanks to devolution. That would help to secure the future of midwifery and maternity services in England. Ultimately that is in the best interests of women and their families.

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• Mary Sheridan
• Nevil Chatterton
• Tony Hawkey
• Nicola Burnham
• anna binnie
• Catherine Farmer
• glenda west
• jayne denman
• lynsey garnham
• Amanda Chinery
• glenys haughton
• tracy turner
• Sarah Syms
• Sheena Byrom
• Lucy Muncaster
• Lorraine Langridge
• Sue Turner
• Andria Dempsey
• Gail Hillier
• Chris Booth
• Paul O'Neill
• Hazel O'Neill
• Lisa Kennedy
• Samantha Clevett
• Kerry Bushell
• Ryan Graham
• Catherine Brady
• Wendy Langridge
• Margaret Parsons
• Erica Dingle
• Carol Puckett
• JANE WILLIAMS
• emma beal
• louise strang
• Mary Gillies
• Luan Wiseman
• heather jones
• Sophie Pullen
• Jacqui Yeates
• Angela Duharty-Reece
• Rebecca Grech
• amanda tutin
• Felicity Briggs
• A. Dixon
• Julie Cronin
• norah malone ahmad
• Rebecca Carline
• Valerie Wilson
• Louise Blacklock
• h a powell
• Sarah Astbury
• Natalie Jones
• neomi bennett
• Warren Blinston
• susan wright
• Vicky Herd
• Alison Heywood
• jennifer Smith
• mariam patel
• Iain Ashworth
• Catherine Townsend
• paula wilson
• Deborah walker
• Bentleymargaret
• Dee Pulvertaft
• Natalie Jackson
• Sharon Bennett
• ANDREW SNOWDON
• Lynda Barber
• Mick Cotter
• Manuela Da Costa-Fernandes
• lorraine wood
• Gordon Sim
• Nadine Greatholder
• Gemma Smythe
• Jessica Sobey
• Serena Tierney
• Jignesh Patel
• Jo Cambridge
• Miss Samantha Aaron
• Emma Rowe
• Mandy Sedgeman
• Ciaran Beale
• Heather Weston
• angela romain
• Paul Bunnage
• Michael Fernandes
• Linsday Lee
• PAUL BRIERLEY
• david robinson
• A SAVILL
• Heather Thompson
• Michael J Butler
• Christine Peirson
• Renna Christie
• james green
• Sue Smith
• Ryan Crawford
• Hayley Freestone
• Sarah Mitchell
• Suzanne Bunnage
• matthew salisbury
• Jessica Hughes
• Sarah Armstrong
• Michael peirson
• amy pegg
• Lucy Thatcher
• sam rundle
• KarenFinlayson
• jenny sayer
• Dawn Stephen
• HARJIT MANKOO
• Jackie Rundle
• Laura Brooks
• Alaine Jones
• Rebecca Whitehead
• Laura Pita Castro
• Kate Stanley
• Lisa Moores
• Amy Forrester
• Kate Upton
• Rachel Pepa
• Sarah Stacey
• Catherine Newbury
• Emma Louise Hendry
• Philippa Smith
• nicola dawson
• Tracy Carragher
• Lyndsay Stevenson
• Susan Banks
• Suzanne Carter
• Leanne Roost
• Sarah Neil
• sarah foster
• J Connell-Davies
• jill thomas
• Clare Stanley
• c straw
• claire potter
• Rachel Broadbent
• Marc Smith
• J C Pickering
• Rachel Davies
• Charlotte Smith
• sue hall
• Tara Faupel
• anne van dellen
• Megan Turner
• Rachael Turpie
• Naomi Phillips
• Jeni Pellow
• Kayleigh Lewis
• Victoria Wheatley
• Claudia Mills Butler
• Pooja Unjiya
• Eleanor Clark
• Justine Frick
• Cllr Gavin Ayling
• Louise Seddon
• MICHELLE GIBSON
• Eleanor Hinkson
• cherry masters
• connie fallon
• Louise Wiseman
• Katie Paskins
• Rachael Wilson
• Rachael Larcombe
• dawn hendon
• Nicola Philp
• claire perrin
• Ian Kemp
• Gail Naylor
• cheryl hardiman
• Kylla Barnes
• Sarah Deaton
• Rebecca Board
• Dayna Miller
• Alex McPherson
• Joanne Sharp
• thomas martin
• Jayne Potham(this should be the case for all newly qualified nurses)
• Thomas Russell
• Miranda Millett
• melanie derricott
• Yasmin Tulett
• Tony Shannon
• Jessica Harris
• Lisa Gibbons
• Ellen Smith
• Michael Sheldon
• David Oliver
• D Taylor
• Sabine Everett
• Penelope Barrison
• D Harris
• Lucinda Buxton
• Gillian McDowell
• Joanne Frater
• SHIRLEY EGAN
• margaret taylor
• Samantha Lloyd
• ALLEN KILPATRICK
• C Deakin
• golda nyarko
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Hayley O'Riordan
• Nicole Keen
• Dawn Mahon
• Carolyn Cairns
• Caroline Weeks
• Christina Keating
• Helena Fickling
• Paul Matthews
• Ceri0rose Brown
• David
• adeline townsend
• Vania Roper
• Candice Lyons
• Sally Martin
• julie Wanstall
• Sally Stubbs
• carly loscombe
• Dawn Stapleton
• Amy Pearson
• James Allen
• Cristiana Pinto
• Penny Smith
• Gemma Pryor
• Patricia Holland
• Nicholas Elmitt
• Terence Howe
• Nancy Tague
• Karin Donnelly
• anjella darcy
• Natalie Finch
• Elizabeth Hanson
• samantha busby
• Rachel Midgley
• marie adams
• Janet Manktelow
• Katharine Hallett
• JANET CUNNIFFE
• Miranda Armstrong
• Samantha Tyler
• Theresa Anne Marsden
• allanna brown
• Karen Hindle
• Joanna Witchard
• Benjamin Witchard
• Carol Austin
• beth rae
• monica marsden
• julia barr
• Craig Burden
• Christopher Philip Marsden
• Jessica Singer
• Jenny Slater
• rachel gallimore
• Siobhan Bryden
• Keith Burden
• Colin Jones
• Regina Covington
• Steve Wade
• Jane Hanson
• Dave Chadfield
• Amy Marsden
• Jill Priestley
• Kelly Delaney
• Susan Oxendale
• Alwen Griffin
• Suzy Lawton
• helen Ward
• Rita Taylor
• j campbell
• Lucy Kimmings
• Kelly E Henshaw
• Adam Cooper
• Mr Chris Marsden
• Nathaie Gibbons
• vicki broadbent
• Christine Elizabeth Brazil
• kelly sampson
• Lucy De Villiers
• Sarah Geldart
• Erica Ball
• Lydia Ball
• Rachel Parry
• claire adcock
• amanda green
• Caroline Fox
• katie cassidy
• Amanda
• jonathan deighton
• Hilary Leake
• jessica alton
• kevin alton
• M Struthers
• Lois Pethybridge
• susan lynn brown
• stephen taylor
• Louisa Groenewald
• Sj Halpin
• saiqa bi
• Rubina bi
• Rachel Norton
• Nikki Tandy
• Neil Fairhurst
• Leyli Beheshty-Zadeh
• Christina Stanistreet
• Dave Menon
• zac newton
• Julie Paul
• michaela platt
• nicola tray
• helen clay
• Glenn Russell
• Emma Daly
• Rachel Lodge
• Gareth Tyler
• Jean Marsh
• Jessica Austin
• Alison Raine
• Maria Gibson
• Margie Horspool
• Stuart Horspool
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• Hilary chadwick
• Josie Lloyd
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• Jonathan Durrant
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• sandra locke
• Agnes Woodhouse
• Nicola Harrison
• Kelly Hollingmode
• Shona Bevan
• Kirsty Law
• sheryl scragg
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• sharon saunders
• Frank Vail
• daniel ryan
• Kayleigh Elmslie-Jones
• Julie Jones
• ann vassie
• rachael cousins
• Sally Levy
• Jill Blakey
• Lesley Crawford
• simon ainley
• melanie Franklin-Pryce
• Kim Brown
• Suzanne Buxton
• Victoria Hudson
• Rachael Handbury
• Jennifer Crowther
• Rosemary Course
• Clare Church
• clara haken
• Anita Scott
• Lewis Hill
• Nazmiye Mormenekse
• Rachel Phillips
• Elisabeth. A. Birch
• Lisa Thompson
• Sue Hall
• Fiona Liddle
• Sara Smith
• Cathy Green
• Sarah Finan
• Lucy Boyne
• Rachel Osborne
• alison Leyland
• EILEEN MORRIS
• Henrietta Otley
• lynn jobson
• Neil Trainor
• stephanie macarthur
• Victoria Yale
• paul knox
• Wendy Baker
• Tracey Murphy
• suzi girdler
• Kevin Yale
• Andrew Liddle
• Mrs. Marilyn J. Ray
• S Stimpson
• Richard Neale
• Heather Neale
• Claire Grange
• Charlene Tugwell
• babita williams
• Jude Howells
• Jayne Sullivan
• Debra Dougall
• Ann R N Richards
• Melanie Dodd
• michelle best
• rebekah bradley
• PAULA JAYNE HOLT
• Nicola Dusterhoff
• Mark Gartland
• jenny edwins
• rebecca godwin
• Linda Sheppard
• Judith Wright
• A.MacCabe
• Grazia Bracey
• Victoria Hunter
• rosemary high
• Sarah Jane Mann
• Margaret Yerby
• Sophie Sarah Coleman
• JOANNE FENLON
• Bernadette Thomson
• lisa boundy
• David Beatson
• Rosemary Churchett
• Kari Larsen
• Natasha Stone
• carol lambert
• Nicola Soper
• Hayley Stone
• jenny pinnegar
• Jennifer Byers
• Rebecca Hiam
• Sharon Davidson
• |Tania Dewing
• laura ford
• Brenda Walcott
• Joanne Wilks
• Claire Chapman
• Marian Clarke
• Phil Le Houx
• Catherine Norman
• lisa routledge
• Frances Donovan
• Karen Thomas
• Amanda Goode - O'Brien
• Mrs v j Bray
• jane hudspeth
• Katie Yarnold
• Adele Morgan
• stephen barnes
• Sue Calder
• A Tilley
• Sarah Tobin
• D Taylor
• Sally Beardsmore
• Terence Gamble
• LOUISE CROCKFORD
• Clare
• Emma Davey
• George Espoir
• Jenny Hill
• Lisa Bowden
• Bethany Miles
• carly day
• Lynne Swann
• madeline and brian blackler
• greg phillips
• pete johnson
• Vanessa Vince
• Heather Wilcox
• amanda green
• penny vince
• Fiona Tunnicliffe
• Claire Croft
• sarah crossland
• Julie Smith
• susan armstrong
• Anne Clayden
• AnnikaWalters-Davies
• Joanne Bailey
• Chris Han
• miriam ivens
• Mike Cornish
• Debbie Brocklebank
• Helen Notman
• Neil Surman
• Sarah Snow
• Johannah Taylor
• Denise Waugh
• Sara Louise Faulkner
• Joanne Minter
• Patricia Bethel
• Elizabeth Stead
• Sarah Schoolcraft
• stu leather
• andrea goulding
• Ian MacCabe
• wendy jones
• Paul Beech
• Rachael Massey
• Stephen Massey
• Molly O'Brien
• Anna Swift
• michele paton
• Tracy Creagh

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