March 28, 2003

More silly hospital policies

I heard one of the silliest stories ever yesterday - it is a great illustration of how bureaucratic and idiotic hospital administrations can become.

One of the midwives in the workshop yesterday (from Taunton, Somerset) had attended an Active Birth workshop that I presented in Taunton a couple of years ago. She was interested in trying the hot wet towels for easing labour pain and found they were a great success. Some women, who had indicated in advance that they would want an epidural, found the hot wet towels were enough and they avoided using medications altogether.

Buoyed by this success, the midwife asked for the hospital to order some flannels that she could use for this simple treatment. Eventually they arrived and were locked away in a cupboard. Now, if she wants to use them for a labouring women, she has to get special permission from the unit manager to remove them from the cupboard! As she pointed out, the various drugs that midwives can use for labouring women are freely available without any trouble - they can be used without special permission being needed!

Have you ever heard anything so silly? These are not gold plated flannels, or specially manufactured small towels that are hard to come by - they are cheap, ordinary terry towelling squares that cost a few pence each. Someone here has comprehensively lost the plot!

Nevertheless, this midwife continues to use these towels because they are so effective and cheap. Eventually someone must get the message that this is a situation worthy of a student revue skit!

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