All Maternity articles – Page 44
-
NewsNHS at centre of Tories’ election campaign
The Conservative Party has placed the NHS at the centre of its newly launched election campaign with a “realistic” draft health manifesto that scales down several earlier pledges.
-
NewsPCTs falling behind on maternity access
More than a third of primary care trusts are failing to meet a key maternity services access target, despite claiming they have met the government’s flagship “choice guarantees” for pregnant women.
-
NewsNurse policing is to be ‘more proactive’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to be more “proactive” in its policing of poor nursing care, including carrying out inspections of trusts, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
-
NewsTories pledge maternity support
Funding for innovative NHS maternity services is to be proposed by the Conservatives in recognition of the additional pressures that higher birth rates have created.
-
NewsConservative win could kill local NHS shake-up plans
The Conservatives have pledged to scrap current government proposals for reconfiguration in major services if they are voted into power. What could this mean for the many local changes already being deliberated? Alison Moore reports
-
HSJ KnowledgeMap of Medicine - plot the best pathway to care
A software based tool gives clinicians a picture of the ideal route patients need to take for many important conditions. Lynne Greenwood explains how it works
-
NewsNorth east London hospital shake-up consultation coming soon
A consultation on the reconfiguration of hospital services in north east London is expected to start before the end of the year.
-
News
Ambitious reconfiguration plan abandoned
One of the most ambitious service reconfiguration programmes in England is likely to end this month, with a board decision expected to keep the status quo.
-
NewsDavid Cameron pulls together threads on health policy
Conservative leader David Cameron has set out the legislative changes to healthcare the party plans to implement if it wins the next election.
-
NewsInvestigation launched after woman demands all-white maternity team
Hospital staff have complained to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after a woman in labour demanded an all-white team to deliver her baby.
-
NewsDH disputes maternity choice findings
The Department of Health has disputed claims by the National Childbirth Trust that most expectant mothers still have no choice but to have their babies in hospital.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Home births
Women used to give birth at home: in 1900s over 99 per cent of babies were born at home. However, as GPs and obstetricians persuaded women that giving birth in hospital was safer than at home the rate dropped to 1 per cent in the 1980s. Today the home birth ...
-
HSJ Knowledge
Access to maternity care
In 2006 an exciting opportunity arose which enabled some innovative thinking to become a reality and the award winning Hackney Maternity Helpline was born.
-
NewsSHAs must assess delivery of maternity choice
A survey next year will assess the NHS’s delivery of choice in maternity care.
-
NewsMaternity unit off special measures
Maternity services at Gwent Healthcare Trust have been taken off special measures imposed after the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales highlighted an “exceptionally high” number of deaths.
-
NewsSpending on maternity 'now increasing'
Hospital trusts are significantly increasing their maternity spending for the first time in several years, according to research by the Royal College of Midwives.
-
NewsNHS maternity services overstretched, say Tories
Almost 4,000 women in England gave birth in locations other than a designated hospital labour bed in 2008 - a 15 per cent increase over the previous year, new figures reveal.
-
NewsNHS maternity services 'suffering from lack of board engagement'
Senior midwives and obstetricians are concerned about a lack of board engagement with maternity services, a King’s Fund report said this week.
-
CommentHow to ensure choice in maternity services
If the government’s pledge, laid down in Maternity Matters, that all women in England should have the choice of a home birth by the end of 2009 is to be met, every maternity service should be discussing home birth with every woman.
-
NewsWelsh maternity services 'lack respect'
Research by a public spending watchdog has found not all maternity services are treating mothers with dignity and understanding.