Home deliveries

摘要

I am aged 83 and was a GP for 34 years from 1954. I was on the GP obstetric list in Bradford, Yorkshire and so had responsibility for home deliveries of my patients. I was appalled to see on the television yesterday that a report published in the BJOG1 stated that babies born at home who needed to be rushed to hospital as emergencies were eight times as likely to die on transfer as average. The reason is that there are no obstetric flying squads available now.