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From: Maria Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
To: UK midwives and consumers mailing list. <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 14 January 2000 07:44
Subject: [ukmidwifery] Newbury Hospital Midwife Unit
>UK midwives and consumers mailing list.
>
>Just to keep those who are interested up to date. Our petition for a
>midwife led birth centre was passed to the West Berkshire Council Public
>Protection Committee and the committee meeting took place last night.
There
>was actually no debate about it, because all the councillors were
>supportive. The motion went further ... and the committee agreed that if
>this was a facility that the public truly wanted and needed, and the NHS
>said it could not afford, then the council would do all in its power to
>obtain funding from other sources. Blimey! But then it is the elections
>soon, and this has been a big headline grabbber.
>
>The statement the Trust and the PCG made to the council against the
petition
>relied on the statement that there was clinically no advantage of birth
>centres over home births. In the absence of any research on this (that I
>can find), I am assuming this is just an opinion. Please correct me if I
am
>wrong.
>
>Anyway, thanks again for all the support we have had from the list and
we'll
>keep you up to date.
>
>Maria Morgan
>Chair
>Newbury NCT
>
>
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