Pauline - to my knowledge no, and it would be a rather challenging thing to research.

 

The Birthplace data are the most detailed I can think of without searching systematically, but our findings showed particularly good outcomes from freestanding midwifery units and the distance/travel time to hospital was higher than that for home births.

We were not able to assess the actual time to get to hospital but the time to being assessed in hospital, as the data available didn’t allow the distinction to be made – how long women waited on arrival before being seen.

The median overall transfer time, including time spent arranging transfer, waiting for the ambulance to arrive, travel time and any wait before first assessment in the OU, was 60 minutes for transfers from FMUs and 49 minutes for transfers from home.

 

It seems likely that time to be seen on arrival in a well-functioning system would be related to urgency of reason for transfer.  In two cases of urgent transfer from FMU observed directly in the Birthplace qualitative case studies, the OU staff were ready to receive and take on care straight away having been briefed by a midwife by telephone. This is no doubt a benefit of having an integrated maternity system under the NHS, as compared with experiences in some countries.

 

The key source with details on transfers from Birthplace is this follow-on analysis paper:

 

Rachel E Rowe, John Townend, Peter Brocklehurst, Marian Knight, Alison Macfarlane, Christine McCourt, Mary Newburn, Maggie Redshaw, Jane Sandall, Louise Silverton and Jennifer Hollowell. Duration and urgency of transfer in births planned at home and in freestanding midwifery units in national prospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2013, 13:224 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/13/224

 

 

 

 

On 21/10/2019, 19:54, "A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research. on behalf of Pauline Dawson" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

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    This is great data!

   

    Further to my email though I don't think anyone has found an optimal time?

    Am I wrong??

   

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