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Until relatively recently hospitals have tended to resist the desires of women wishing to have a home birth for fear they would, in the event of something going wrong, risk liability for birth injury compensation.
However, a Dutch study, the most comprehensive yet examining the issue, has revealed that for low-risk mothers-to-be, the risk of complication is negligible, comparable even to that of women having hospital births.
While this study, the work of the Dutch Ministry of Health and reported in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, was exhaustive, examining nearly 530,000 births over a 7-year period, it should be noted that it only details the Dutch experience of a limited cohort: low-risk women being cared for by a midwife at the time of labour.
While it would be difficult and perhaps careless to infer that the study would correlate to be representative of the UK experience, as many factors in maternity care can be population or health system specific, it certainly raises some questions that are likely to be of interest to the NHS.
For the purposes of the study the definition of "low-risk" excluded a great deal of women, including those who needed pain relief, those who required induction or foetal monitoring and those who had had a difficult previous pregnancy, perhaps of the kind that eventually necessitated the making of a claim for birth injury compensation.
Most significantly, the study found that there was only negligible difference between the rates of perinatal mortality when comparing statistics for home births with statistics for hospital births.
Birth injury compensation with leading medical negligence lawyers
Bringing new life into the world should be one of a family's greatest joys, and for most of us this will be the case.
In cases where the delivery of a child is mismanaged or handled negligently and the opportunity for joy ruined, the effects can be devastating. In such cases, it may be possible to claim compensation for clinical negligence.
YouClaim's birth injury lawyers are among the leading specialists in the UK. All are drawn from firms governed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and many have membership of the Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme.
If you feel that you may be entitled to claim birth injury compensation, our team of advisors can speak with you on a cost-free and obligation-free basis to help you ascertain whether it might be in your interests to proceed.
Our advisors can be reached online, either through echat or by completing an online claim form.
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