The removal of Caesarean section targets for hospitals in England is a welcome reversal in how we manage pregnancy and birth
, you may have missed a change in a different area of healthcare: childbirth services.
They claim doctors use too many interventions, often for their own convenience, and encourage people to give birth with as little medical help as possible. On the other side are campaigners who say that approach is unsafe. The total rate of C-sections, either within births at a hospital or those for a whole country, has come to be seen as a significant measure of how “over-medicalised” childbirth has become. In the UK, hospitals were encouraged to keep their rates down, and a maximum rate of 20 per cent was advised by the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.
There are many areas of medicine where there is real debate among doctors about the best approach. Whether you get any input into such a decision about your health may depend on how much your doctor values patient autonomy.
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