Coronavirus and pregnancy, Social workers, Calamity Jane

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Royal College of Midwives says that coronavirus may mean its staff have to work elsewhere in the NHS, rather than looking after pregnant women. Dr Mary Ross Davie explains the RCM's concerns.

Social workers are trying to keep working safely and effectively despite restrictions around Covid-19. However, a survey by the British Associations of Social Workers says many haven't been given solid advice or the right personal protection equipment. Dr Ruth Allen, Chief Executive of the BASW, describes the challenges that social workers face right now.

We hear from two healthcare workers who've cared for SARS patients and Ebola patients. How did they cope during those pandemics and what can we learn from them now?

And Calamity Jane: you're probably thinking of Doris Day right now but Calamity Jane really did exist in real-life. Professor Karen R. Jones from the University of Kent tells us how an American called Martha Jane Canary was the real Calamity Jane.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.
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0:34.4	Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and this is the Women's Our Podcast.
0:37.3	It is the 30th of March, 2020.
0:40.8	It is a very good morning to you. I hope your weekend was all right. Keep us in touch with how you're doing. We'd love to hear from you at BBC Woman's Hour on Twitter and Instagram or you can email the program via our website particularly interested in hearing from people who are
0:55.2	working from home sharing the child care how is that going how's it working out has it
1:01.4	been actually really smooth we'll talk about it a little bit more later on in this program.
1:05.0	Or have you faced a few challenges? So let us know how W FH, I think, yeah that works, the-F-H is working for you right now
1:14.7	lots to get through this morning I'm a first of all going to check in with the
1:18.0	Royal College of Midwives today it's made a plea to the NHS to protect the safety of pregnant women by ring-fencing maternity services in the current crisis.
1:29.0	Dr Mary Ross Davy is from the Royal College of Midwives.
1:33.4	Mary, what is it you're worried about specifically?
1:36.6	So what we're worried about specifically is that we know that we had a shortage of midwives
1:40.5	before this pandemic, that we were short of around 2,500 midwives across England
1:46.4	and Heads of Midwifery have told us over the last week that that has now doubled to around
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