All Maternity Matters articles – Page 3

  • News

    Government gets tough on maternity services

    2008-12-03T12:59:00Z

    The Department of Health is to spell out to primary care trusts their duty to improve maternity services.

  • News

    Maternity services growth fails to keep up with births

    2008-10-28T11:04:00Z

    Maternity services faced growing pressure on capacity and staff last year despite government commitments to improve safety and choice.Newly released reports from regional midwifery officers show midwife numbers in many areas failed to keep up with the rising birth rate in 2007-08.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Making progress on infant mortality

    2008-07-03T11:52:13Z

    High infant mortality rates in disadvantaged groups make the latest inequalities targets tough to hit. But there has been some progress in this area, as Andy Cowper found out.

  • News

    Will Darzi bring about a renaissance in maternity services?

    2008-07-03T09:00:00Z

    A number of regional Darzi plans have promised midwife-led units and better information. Daloni Carlisle asks if this vision will become a reality

  • HSJ Knowledge

    New roles in the health sector

    2008-06-17T09:00:00Z

    A series of projects under the Skills for Health banner is developing new roles to support the ever-changing health service

  • Blogs

    Maternity services clarification

    2008-02-08T15:36:00Z

    Regarding your article “Watchdog gives maternity services a ‘wake-up call’”, which addressed the Healthcare Commission’s review into maternity services. The review was a landmark survey and represents the scale of what needs to be done by the government to meet the guarantees it outlined in Maternity Matters, the Department of ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Creating a viable national maternity service

    2007-10-22T09:00:00Z

    Confidence in flexible community midwifery services should transform current reliance on acute settings, writes Marina Colville

  • News

    Home births to be included in payment by results tariff

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Home births will be included in the payment by results tariff next year to support choice for women the chief executive of NHS has announced.

  • News

    Maternity networks invited to bid to become early adopter sites

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Maternity networks are being invited to bid to become early adopter sites to speed up the implementation of Maternity Matters.

  • News

    Visa rules could slow recruitment

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Plans to restrict the number of foreign midwives on 'fast track' visas will thwart the government's pledge to drastically improve maternity care, campaigners are claiming.

  • News

    Pilot sites sought for maternity reforms

    2007-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Maternity networks are being invited to bid to become early adopter sites for the government's Maternity Matters reforms.

  • News

    Increased choice for maternity care

    2007-04-03T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced that by the end of 2009 all women will have a choice of maternity care, including the choice of a home birth. She made the pledge in the new Department of Health document Maternity Matters: choice, access and continuity of care in a safe ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Maternity care: eyes on storks

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Government pledges on choice in maternity care are at odds with widespread reports of midwives crumbling under the pressure of slashed budgets, writes Daloni Carlisle

  • News

    College calls for extra staff for home births

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Trusts must recruit more midwives to meet the Department of Health's promise to let women choose a home birth by 2009, the Royal College of Midwives has warned.