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Of course, once the guidelines are out on Dec 4, then it is open to anyone to look at them and the evidence for midwife-led units, which is already in the public domain,  http://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/birthplace and bombard the Sunday Times with letters to back up those we hope it will already have received from NICE and the RCM.


Alison Macfarlane

Birthplace | NPEU
Birthplace is a multidisciplinary programme of research addressing questions relating to the provision, safety and costs of different settings for birth in the NHS. The programme included the Birthplace national prospective cohort study, which compared perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth; a linked cost-effectiveness study; a descriptive study of the configuration of maternity care in England; and a set of qualitative organisational case studies.

From: Briley, Annette <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 30 November 2014 13:53
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sunday Times article about Freestanding Midwifery Units
 
Typical of the press to present a wholly biased view on a Sunday and who is this guy anyway? How presumptuous to consider he knows about maternity care, when he has specialised in another area of healthcare and has retired so therefore is not currently working in the NHS. 

Additionally, as Alison said those who have seen the new guidelines have done so in confidence and the story is surely embargoed until the 4th. 

Presumably the RCM and Chair of the committee reviewing the guidelines must respond?

Annette

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On 30 Nov 2014, at 12:23, Soo Downe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Their informant is a retired surgeon? So therefore an expert in maternity care research and delivery???

 

All the best

 

Soo

 

From: A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Macfarlane, Alison
Sent: 30 November 2014 11:51
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Subject: Re: Sunday Times article about Freestanding Midwifery Units

 

It is a leak of the revised NICE intrapartum care guideline out later this week on December 4. I presume and hope that NICE and RCM will deal with it. NICE knows what the guideline says and I presume RCM has seen it in confidence. The doctor cited in the article shouldn't have seen it, like the rest of us.

 

​Alison Macfarlane

From: Lucia Rocca <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 30 November 2014 10:24
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Subject: Sunday Times article about Freestanding Midwifery Units

 

which is written in a very biased way and needs a response...

 

Anybody already dealing with this?

 

 

Best wishes

Lucia


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Lucia Rocca-Ihenacho

Consultant Midwife &  Research Fellow

St George's NHS Trust
London, UK

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