Rural Maternity Day assessment and Ultrasound scanning service development

Is local maternity care an optional service in rural communities?

There has been a precipitous decline in the number of rural communities across Canada providing local maternity care. The evidence suggests that the outcome for newborns may be worse as a result. There is also an emerging understanding of the significant physiological and psychosocial consequences for rural parturient women. Because they cannot plan for birth with any certainty, many of them ex...

Local birthing services for rural women: Adaptation of a rural New South Wales maternity service

OBJECTIVE To describe the outcomes of a public hospital maternity unit in rural New South Wales (NSW) following the adaptation of the service from an obstetrician and general practitioner-obstetrician (GPO)-led birthing service to a low-risk midwifery group practice (MGP) model of care with a planned caesarean section service (PCS). DESIGN A retrospective descriptive study using quantitative ...

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...