Protests force U-turn on maternity unit closure - Guardian
Extract:
"As revealed in the Guardian, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust had said it would have to shut the rural Darley Dale unit in Matlock, north Derbyshire, because, with just 120 babies born there each year, it was losing £312,000 annually.
But the decision meant heavily pregnant women would have to travel for up to an hour along country roads to give birth. The closure also flew in the face of plans announced by the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, to allow every woman the choice of a home, hospital or midwife-led birth by 2009.
The same recommendations were made by the maternity tsar Dr Sheila Shribman, and are set to be made by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice).
The plan to permanently close the unit - which has been temporarily closed since the autumn - prompted 5,500 local people and the commissioning primary care trust to protest when it was announced as non-negotiable in a consultation document on revamping maternity services.
Today the trust bowed to this pressure - and to the threat, by the Maintain Our Maternity Services (Moms) campaign group, to seek a judicial review over the handling of the consultation."
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Wednesday, 11 April 2007
Award-winning maternity unit will close despite pledge
Trust to shut award-winning maternity unit despite pledge - Guardian
Extract:
"An NHS foundation trust is planning to close an award-winning midwife-led maternity unit despite the government last week promising every woman the option of such a delivery.
Heavily pregnant women in north Derbyshire will have to travel up to 21 miles on country roads because of plans to close the Darley Dale unit and cut community midwife numbers from 50 to 33.
Last week, after the health secretary said every mother would have the choice of home, hospital or midwife-led birth by 2009, the Guardian revealed that six out of nine English regions do not employ enough midwives to meet the most basic standards of care. The east Midlands already has the second-worst provision of midwives in the country, according to Guardian figures.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust says each birth at the eight-bed unit costs £3,217 compared with the £1,000 allocated by the government, meaning it loses £312,000 each year. The inefficiency comes because only 120 babies are born at the unit annually compared with 2,700 at the hospital, yet it has to be staffed by two midwives around the clock."
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Extract:
"An NHS foundation trust is planning to close an award-winning midwife-led maternity unit despite the government last week promising every woman the option of such a delivery.
Heavily pregnant women in north Derbyshire will have to travel up to 21 miles on country roads because of plans to close the Darley Dale unit and cut community midwife numbers from 50 to 33.
Last week, after the health secretary said every mother would have the choice of home, hospital or midwife-led birth by 2009, the Guardian revealed that six out of nine English regions do not employ enough midwives to meet the most basic standards of care. The east Midlands already has the second-worst provision of midwives in the country, according to Guardian figures.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust says each birth at the eight-bed unit costs £3,217 compared with the £1,000 allocated by the government, meaning it loses £312,000 each year. The inefficiency comes because only 120 babies are born at the unit annually compared with 2,700 at the hospital, yet it has to be staffed by two midwives around the clock."
For a healthier pregnancy and a healthier baby, and to avoid excess weight gain during pregnancy, try to avoid eating salt and salty food. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pregnant_mothers.html
Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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