Relief of sacked Wakefield midwife after winning appeal: More than 40,000 signed petition backing her

Jane Greaves, a midwife for 16-years, said she felt ‘relief’ on Thursday night after a panel of senior managers at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust overturned last month’s decision to sack her.

Miss Greaves, 46, said she was last off work with a kidney infection she claims she contracted at Pinderfields Hospital’s birth centre - which doesn’t have a staff toilet.She said low staffing levels meant she was unable to leave the unit to go to the toilet during 12-hour shifts.

Miss Greaves She said she had informed management at least 49 times about problems of high workload and not enough staff at the unit.

She said she was ill after working on December 31 and went to A&E at Pinderfields and was sent to see a urologist, who said she was not emptying her bladder often enough and had contracted a kidney infection.

She was given a seven-day sick note.

Miss Greaves, who worked as a nurse at the trust for two years before becoming a midwife, said she had a total of 14 days off sick in the 12 months from January 2017 to January 2018.

On March 15 she was told she was being dismissed immediately due to her sickness record.