The doctors of the NHS Hospital are worried about the inexperienced night staff. This staff is making bad decisions about the care when women give birth at night. Britain's top maternity doctors are warning that the inexperience of doctors working at night shifts can bring many bad consequences to mother and child because the care is not the same. Dr Tony Falconer said "Care overnight have not the same quality as at 9am or 2pm. It's not as good. At 2am, you do not have the same experience." This means that problems can happen because trainee obstetricians and other key staff, such as anaesthetists, who works night duty, are less experienced than those in the day. He also said that the NHS should use most or all of the money spent settling such cases to hire 500 to 1,000 senior doctors, who will improve the quality and safety of care in all big maternity hospitals, and not just be available by phone to advise junior colleagues.
Reaction: I think that there should not be differences in the quality of doctors in the day and the night shifts. Maybe it is an option to split the day shift in two groups and let them work night shifts, this will bring better care for the women who are given birth. This option is of course a temporal solution, because it is clear that there are not sufficient top doctors, that is why they should hire more experiences doctors because right now there are not enough in the NHS hospital.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/dec/31/mothers-nhs-overnight-care-doctors
I think it is very bad that if a woman has to give birth overnight she does not receive the same care as over day. There should be experienced doctors 24 ours a day 7 days a week. I think it is a good idea to split up the shifts. I think that the doctors who work at night should also work over day so they can gain more experience.
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