with me now is elizabeth duff, who's senior policy adviser with the nct, the nct, the national childbirthate these extra places? it's been a thinly stretched and overgrown workforce for quite some time, over ten years, overgrown workforce for quite some time, overten years, as overgrown workforce for quite some time, over ten years, as we have heard from the royal college of midwives, and the nct have been campaigning to get more midwives and better deployed workforce with this continuity that has now been promised. how much difference will the main places make eventually when they come on stream? let's hope the lot of difference does the older, more experienced with wives, who are very valuable, i hope that some of them who may have been planning to retire, i hope some of them will think, we've got some new blood coming in, i'll stay think, we've got some new blood coming in, i'llstaya bit long think, we've got some new blood coming in, i'll stay a bit long and helped to train them, and we won't have a loss of continuity. you can't insta ntly have a loss of continuity. you can't instantl