Homerton Hospital are (suddenly) reducing their Home Birth Team, which means I'll lose the lovely midwife I've been seeing throughout my pregnancy and will now have someone I don't know for the birth.... :(
Apart from that, the service has seen a growth in home birth rates and has been hugely popular with women in the area providing one-to-one care, excellent statistics (9% caesarean rate against 26% in Homerton Hospital itself), real choice of place of birth and a respect for women's right to autonomy during pregnancy and birth.
For the last two years Homerton University Hospital has provided a dedicated home birth team of six midwives. This service will be drastically cut as of the end of this year leaving it unable to provide an adequate provision for home birth in Hackney.
Please sign the petition to find out what's going on and support a fully operational Home Birth Team in Hackney.
(My belief is there's something fishy going on here - the home birth team were not consulted about the cuts, and the team has been incredibly successful and popular. Home births are cheaper for the NHS than hospital births.)
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Homerton Hospital (East London) reducing its Home Birth Team from 6 to 4 midwives
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bealos · 11/12/2012 18:39
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