All Maternity Matters articles – Page 3
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Leader
Maternity matters: stop passing the buck
The commitments made in Maternity Matters are due to be met by the end of the year.
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News
Government gets tough on maternity services
The Department of Health is to spell out to primary care trusts their duty to improve maternity services.
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News
Maternity services growth fails to keep up with births
Maternity services faced growing pressure on capacity and staff last year despite government commitments to improve safety and choice.Newly released reports from regional midwifery officers show midwife numbers in many areas failed to keep up with the rising birth rate in 2007-08.
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HSJ Knowledge
Making progress on infant mortality
High infant mortality rates in disadvantaged groups make the latest inequalities targets tough to hit. But there has been some progress in this area, as Andy Cowper found out.
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News
Will Darzi bring about a renaissance in maternity services?
A number of regional Darzi plans have promised midwife-led units and better information. Daloni Carlisle asks if this vision will become a reality
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HSJ Knowledge
New roles in the health sector
A series of projects under the Skills for Health banner is developing new roles to support the ever-changing health service
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Blogs
Maternity services clarification
Regarding your article “Watchdog gives maternity services a ‘wake-up call’”, which addressed the Healthcare Commission’s review into maternity services. The review was a landmark survey and represents the scale of what needs to be done by the government to meet the guarantees it outlined in Maternity Matters, the Department of ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Creating a viable national maternity service
Confidence in flexible community midwifery services should transform current reliance on acute settings, writes Marina Colville
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News
Maternity networks invited to bid to become early adopter sites
Maternity networks are being invited to bid to become early adopter sites to speed up the implementation of Maternity Matters.
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News
Home births to be included in payment by results tariff
Home births will be included in the payment by results tariff next year to support choice for women the chief executive of NHS has announced.
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News
Visa rules could slow recruitment
Plans to restrict the number of foreign midwives on 'fast track' visas will thwart the government's pledge to drastically improve maternity care, campaigners are claiming.
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News
Pilot sites sought for maternity reforms
Maternity networks are being invited to bid to become early adopter sites for the government's Maternity Matters reforms.
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News
Increased choice for maternity care
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced that by the end of 2009 all women will have a choice of maternity care, including the choice of a home birth. She made the pledge in the new Department of Health document Maternity Matters: choice, access and continuity of care in a safe ...
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News
College calls for extra staff for home births
Trusts must recruit more midwives to meet the Department of Health's promise to let women choose a home birth by 2009, the Royal College of Midwives has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Maternity care: eyes on storks
Government pledges on choice in maternity care are at odds with widespread reports of midwives crumbling under the pressure of slashed budgets, writes Daloni Carlisle
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