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Commons committee calls for more choice over home births

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A House of Commons committee has criticised UK maternity services as patchy and has urged more trusts to support women who want to give birth at home.

The health select committee published two reports last week, one on inequality in access to maternity services across the United Kingdom and one on choice in maternity services.

The second report urged healthcare trusts to support the option of home births and to provide independent midwives where needed. The committee estimates that up to 10 times as many women would want to give birth at home, if given the choice, but that this choice was either not provided or taken away.

"We heard evidence that women who chose home births had this option withdrawn from them at a late stage in their pregnancies, on the grounds that sufficient staffing could not be guaranteed to support the birth," says . . . [Full text of this article]

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