Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.
The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.
Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:
- 63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;
- 117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;
- 115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;
- 399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.
Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.
Babies were born in offices, lifts, toilets and a caravan, according to the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008 from 117 out of 147 trusts which provide maternity services.
NHS is not universal health care. It is universal lack of health care. the same thing Obama wants to foist on the U.S., the Constitution be damned. With the prevalence of such stories readily available to the MSM, it is quite striking the lengths the media will go to keep this news from the American public. Doing what a good state-run media ought be doing.
Yeah, the Daily Mail does have the reputation of being the wildest scariest paper in Britain, but thats ok.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the genius Mail, in the UK in one year, a country of 60 million people, who had a total of 708,711 children had 4000 born outside maternity wards.
Thats 0.56%.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/births1209.pdf
Now lets look at the detail in the Mail's 4000 just for a second. I would love to find the actual figures, but I haven't, I have however found a second source to the figures, so we can take them as read.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/726746-tory-concern-for-maternity-services
1,548 were Unplanned Home Births, meaning the pregnancy came on so fast that the mothers couldnt leave the house. Thats 1,500 out of 708,711.
38 births took place in the ambulance, 333 in transit and 63 in A&E or ER. So thats another 434 that most people would consider as fair, out of 708,711.
Then 171 in antinatal wards, 26 in postnatal wards, and 34 in maternity wards other than a designated labour ward (so thats still the maternity department).
So thats another 231 women having their babies in a maternity ward, in a bed, with a midwife and a doctor, OUT OF 708,711.
We have 52 babies in another ward that is not ER or a specific maternal ward. Hmmm, 52 babies out of 708,711, and then the wonderful 11 babies born in the maternity reception area.
11... out of 708,711.
22 births occurred in "other" parts of the hospital... these are your toilets, lifts etc. Well, its gonna happen some time.
And 8 (EIGHT, OUT OF 708,711) in the car park... perhaps because 8 women, just couldnt make it in without popping.
Finally the mail reported a baby being born in a caravan! Well....
http://www.touringandtenting.com/forums/index.php?/topic/24885-baby-born-in-a-caravan-on-the-m5/
Please note how the caravan was going to the hospital but was caught in bad weather, and who should save the day but a midwife trapped in the same jam! Thank God there are so many midwives about the place!
The only important figure to come out of the mail story was the 533 women who were turned away because they had no room. I am wondering to myself here for a second
HOW MANY WOMEN ARE CURRENTLY TURNED AWAY FROM US HOSPITALS BECAUSE OF LACK OF SPACE AND LACK OF INSURANCE IN ONE YEAR.
Dont worry about being fooled by the Mail, they are world famous for being a scare-mongering newspaper. They also dont reveal their sources. Most british newspapers dont. Its a pain in the ass when you're researching them!
Be far more concerned about the healthcare lobbyists around the states. They have been feeding you bogus information for years, just like the cigarette companies before. You dont have equality when one voice can afford to shout and another one cant.
It's also fascinating that Daniel Hannan gave up his position only two months after getting the post as an MEP in the European Parliament. Perhaps it had something to do with him getting kicked out of his party.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hannan
Or maybe because he was severely reprimanded by his boss
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6023293/Daniel-Hannan-rebuked-by-Conservative-leadership-for-attacking-NHS.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_I0APrmGw&feature=fvw
The conservatives by the way are the equivilent to the republicans.
Interesting how every country can produce a crazy.