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Chichester Home Birth Conference

Next March, the Chichester Homebirth group is presenting one of their special Conferences, this time in Bristol, UK. These are a very popular event and offer an opportunity for midwives, parents and others interested in home birth to gather and share ideas.

Next year’s event is titled “Home Birth: A new concept?” and all the details are now on a web site, that has information about past events and a down-loadable registration form for this coming Conference.

The main speakers will be Mavis Kirkham, Mary Cronk, Jonathan Montgomery, Lynne Leyshon and myself. We’ll be tackling a variety of topics related to home birth and I have been asked to address: “Have women changed?” An interesting challenge!

Providing home birth options is Government policy in the UK, yet its availability depends on the attitudes and capacity of the various Area Health trusts and PCTs to implement. This has been successful in some areas and a failure in others - the lack of staff to provide the service being the most often quoted problem. I am sure these issues will come up next March and that there will be lively discussion on how to make the home a more often chosen birth place by women.

Will I see you there?

Posted by andrea at December 07, 2005 01:56 PM