Maternity Option 3 - the new Favourite
Having watched the Epsom and St Helier Trust Board meeting on Friday, I would now say o9ption 3 for Midwife led units at both sites (see details on the posting below) is now the favourite.
I did point out to Joan Mulcaster of the Post, who was at the meeting that Epsom suffers from a maternity perspective because the borough has quite a very high abortion rate compared to the Merton and Sutton area, most probably for economic reasons. I suspect this point will not feature in the Post's coverage of this issue.
It is interesting to note that the 1000 plus homes in the "Epsom Cluster" are not generating many extra births as many of the homes are for established successful families who already have children and the affordable accomodation on the sites is mainly flats, so also does not generate many births.
I did point out to Joan Mulcaster of the Post, who was at the meeting that Epsom suffers from a maternity perspective because the borough has quite a very high abortion rate compared to the Merton and Sutton area, most probably for economic reasons. I suspect this point will not feature in the Post's coverage of this issue.
It is interesting to note that the 1000 plus homes in the "Epsom Cluster" are not generating many extra births as many of the homes are for established successful families who already have children and the affordable accomodation on the sites is mainly flats, so also does not generate many births.
posted by Charlie Mansell at 12:46 pm
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