Following my work on the Health and Social Care Select Committee, I am delighted at the decision taken by the #NHS to no longer encourage and promote ‘natural births’ over C-sections under plans to improve care for mothers and babies.
The news means the NHS will now abandon targets aimed at limiting caesarean rates, as recommended by my Health and Social Care Committee report which concluded these targets led to women pursuing natural births when a C-section would have been more appropriate, jeopardising their safety.
I have been campaigning for this for years and am delighted it has now come into force.
