Recommendation 9

There is an urgent need for a robust and funded maternity-wide workforce plan, which must be delivered without further delay. The Government must commit to funding, recruiting, and retaining the workforce at the level set out by the forthcoming report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Once this report has been published, the Government must set out a plan within six months for how it intends to recruit the number of people to deliver the level of staffing that the Royal College deems necessary to deliver safe and compassionate care to mothers and babies.