A Maternity Service Scheme

Concerning a Maternity Service

" The proposals contained in the MIaternity Services (Scotland) Bill constitute the first real attempt on the part of the Government to grapple intelligently with the problem of puerperal morbidity and mortality. It is the first step of the SecretarY of State for Scotland to carry into practical effect some of the recommendations contained in the Scottish Report, and if the Bill becomes an Act,...

Maternity Service in Bristol

not only by referring those cases which he desires the consultant to see but by filtering all his cases through the consultant clinic at least twice, early in the ante-natal period and again at the thirty-sixth week, even if he is delivering the patient in her own home or in a General Practitioner Hospital or Home. In other cases the consultant may reciprocate by getting the general practitione...

Maternity Service in Bristol

Maternity Service in Bristol

Figures we are told can prove anything. Cannot we deduce from those quoted by Professor Lennon in his stimulating contribution to the January Journal that Bristol has been relatively successful in reducing maternal deaths to the occasional unavoidable ones from haemorrhage or toxaemia? I think also that there will be very mixed views concerning the Professor's ideas on domiciliary midwifery. If...

Maternity Service in Bristol

Maternity Service, I found his article disappointing in the inadequacy and impractica-bility of his suggestions. The traditional relationship between doctor, patient and consultant has proved over a long period to be too valuable to all concerned to be lightly discarded. Competition between doctor and consultant for patients destroys this relationship utterly. Professor Lennon wants all patient...