Graduate is NHS’s only male midwife in the West of Scotland
UWS Midwifery graduate Kenny Gibson was featured recently in the Evening Times talking about his career and life on the ward as the only male midwife in the West of Scotland.
Kenny, who is based at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley alongside his wife Arlene, also a midwifery graduate from UWS, is one of only a handful of male midwives working in the NHS in Scotland.
When I started there were 49,000 midwives in the UK and 109 were men. There were six registered in Scotland when I qualified. It is very much a female world.”
Kenny graduated in 2009 from UWS Paisley Campus re-training following various jobs. Kenny says: “I had been managing a pub and then it went out of business and I thought I need to re-train.”
“Medicine would have taken too long but I wanted to be establ...