October 2017

October 25, 2017

It’s 40 years since men were first allowed to train as midwives in the UK, but they still only make up a tiny proportion of the profession. Dilan Chauhan is a student midwife on a work placement at University Hospital Lewisham, south London. He is the only man in his year group of 96 and has been taught that midwifery is all about empowering women to make their own choices, and he takes this seriously.

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