home births

NHS Lothian has blamed the reorganisation on 'workforce challenges'

'A complete shambles': NHS home births service 'dismantled' amid midwives exodus
Fears have been raised that expectant mothers who want to deliver their babies at home could be pushed towards hospital instead after NHS Lothian's home births service was "dismantled". For the past four years, the health board ran a dedicated home births team headed by a Band 7 midwife who was supported by seven midwives who had applied to work in the service because they had an specific interest in home births.

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