What about this – permission granted
for use by RCM journal.
I sent it to ACMI last year but don’t know what happened. Liz Maternity
manifesto for election candidates
Do the maternity services in your community? 1 Provide
women with real choices about how and where they give birth? ……..in a small, midwife-led unit, at home, hospital – whichever suits women’s individual needs and circumstances. 2 Offer
high quality care that is cost-effective? ……..with current caesarean section rate at 20% and obstetric litigation, the cost of over-medicalised childbirth has never been clearer. There is a better way. 3 Employ enough midwives to provide one-to-one care for every woman during labour ……..can birth places guarantee that women will not be left alone? 4 Allow
women to get to know the midwives who will care for them? ……..by making sure that every woman has a ‘named midwife’ who she can call with queries and concerns, or by providing ‘caseload’ care, which means that the same midwife provides care throughout pregnancy and after 5 Give
women and babies the care they need in the first days and weeks after birth? ……..postnatal care is underfunded, leaving women and their families without the help they need. Permitted use from RCM Midwives Journal, June 2001. |
Title: Maternity manifesto for election candidates
