Home Birth: A realistic possibility?
Joint meeting with the Association of Community Based Maternity Care and the Royal College of Midwives.
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SESSION 1. Chair: Luke Zander.
The present state of our knowledge, practice, and policies.
Trish Morris Director of Midwifery, Birmingham
Belinda Phipps Chief Executive, National Childbirth Trust
Jo Murphy-Lawless Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Dublin
Discussion.
SESSION 2
Lessons to be learnt from units with high Home Birth rates.
Lyn Leyshon, Director of Midwifery, Torbay Hospital
Cathy Warwick, Director, Women's Services, KCH, London
Discussion.
SESSION 3. Chair: Gavin Young, General Practitioner.
The Educational and Training imperative.
Mavis Kirkham, Professor of Midwifery, Sheffield
Debbie Gould, Consultant Midwife, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London
Discussion.
SESSION 4
The Ethical and Legal dimension.
Rick Porter, Consultant Obstetrician, Bath
Nadine Edwards, AIMS, Edinburgh
Discussion.
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