UK Women to be offered their own £3,000 'birth budgets'

[n2doc]

The NHS in England is to offer pregnant women their own "personal budgets", worth at least £3,000, so they can pick and choose the care they receive.

Women will be able to use it to pay for anything from one-to-one midwifery care to home births in pilots due to start later this year.

The move is part of a shake-up in maternity care unveiled by NHS England to increase the choices women have.

The overhaul is also aimed at improving safety in maternity services.

It has been agreed to on the basis of recommendations from an independent review of services.

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[MineralMan]

1. I'd also like to see a subsidy for people who don't reproduce.

I think people who do have children should receive benefits, too, but I truly believe that contraception should be totally free of any charge.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Contraception is free on the NHS, generally

Condoms may only be free to the under 25s, but contraception (and vasectomies and sterilisation) via doctors is free.

http://www.nhs.uk/Service-Search/Free-condoms/Eastleigh-Hampshire/Results/157/-1.375/50.967/732/6926?distance=25

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Midwifery is an accepted field in Britain, not so here.

Trained competent midwives can save lifes, and know when hospital care is needed.

Since the NHS is spending £560m spent each year negligence cases relating to maternity care, they could save money now
and in the future on that problem alone, looks like.

[Brickbat]

3. OMG WHAT IF THEY GET PREGNANT JUST TO GET THE MONEY??