Midwives demand that pregnant women should be made to pay for epidurals!
If women demand epidurals during delivery even if not needed they should be asked to pay. This is the latest demand of midwives through the experts at Royal College of Midwives (RCM). They said that this would help stem the// growing number of women asking for the injection. About 20% of pregnant women in the UK have an epidural, which costs about £500 in a private maternity hospital.<...Disgruntled GPs and Midwives Squabble over Maternity Care.
New Zealand: Though there have been improvements in maternity care, specifically to section 88 of the contract, yet it is considered inadequate, due to which expectant mothers prefer care of midwives over general practitioners//. Proposed changes to maternity-care funding do not go far enough in bringing pregnant women back to family doctors, GPs say. Peter Foley, of the New Zealand M...