Maternal Mortality and Scheme for a National Maternity Service (interim report)
1929-11 1929 1920s 12 pages - 6 - 20. All midwives should be within telephonic communication, day and night, and travelling facilities should be provided in country regions and for night work. 21. In all cases of difficulty it is essential that the doctor should be summoned without delay. The Loca...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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November 1929
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/76A49A9F-4391-40C8-9039-A01B397240F1 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/8AFFA5E1-8DA0-4A49-AE03-3CAFA6E14814 |
| Summary: | 1929-11
1929
1920s
12 pages
- 6 - 20. All midwives should be within telephonic communication, day and night, and travelling facilities should be provided in country regions and for night work. 21. In all cases of difficulty it is essential that the doctor should be summoned without delay. The Local Authority should make up the midwife's fee if this is reduced to that of a maternity nurse when the doctor is called. Though not immediately practicable, it is desirable that all maternity nurses should eventually be required to hold the certificate of the Central Midwives Board. 22. (B) The doctor There are two types of cases attended by doctors: (1) those primarily booking a doctor for the confinement: these are the private cases of the doctor; and (2) those who are midwives' cases to whom a doctor is called in case of difficulty. It is only over the latter that the Local Authority has any control. Much can be done to improve the maternity services by only calling on those doctors in a neighbourhood who are willing to answer a call from a midwife without delay and could show special skill or knowledge in this branch of medicine. 23. The Local Authority should be responsible for a panel of doctors to serve in this capacity. Choice of doctor as far as possible should be allowed, but doctors should serve in relays (as they do at present for emergency work or anaesthetics in cottage hospitals); they should have times on first, second, third call, etc., and times off duty. All these suggestions apply only to midwives' cases for whom medical aid is summoned; there can be no control over doctors' private cases. 24. (C) The consultant The Local Authority should arrange for the services of two or more consultants, the number depending on the area served.
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