Pregnant women who apply for cesarean section have to deal with multiple barriers of the majority of NHS trusts in the UK and are sometimes rightly refused, new research has revealed.
Guidelines from the women of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) who ask for cesarean section should be offered if they find it best for them after support and consultation with a doctor.
But a report of the charity of the birth. Birth law showed that only 26% of the trusts adhered to the guidelines and many women faced delays and difficulties in applying for a caesarean for non-medical reasons.
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It turned out that 47% of the trusts had an inconsistent or confusing policy regarding the offering of caesarean sections on request.
It ensured that women who had previously undergone traumatic births could not gain access to the care they needed.
The charity also said that it feared that women who might have been sexually assaulted or vulnerable because of language barriers, psychological problems, or learning disabilities were forced to undergo unsafe vaginal births.
It was found that 28% of women who were on cesarean sections did so because they had underlying health problems, such as pelvic pain, who did not meet the medical threshold for requiring caesarean section.
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Many women who asked for cesarean were told they had to go somewhere else.
Rebecca Schiller, chief executive of Birthrights, said: "It is clear that women who request cesarean sections have more convictions, barriers and disrespect than they find sympathy and support.
"We are concerned that this lack of respect for the dignity of the patient may have profound negative consequences for the emotional and physical safety of women."
The birthrights found that the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxfordshire had set up a policy to refuse all caesarean sections at the request of mothers.
Lawyers for charity have since written to the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group with the request for more information about the policy.
A woman who requested a Caesarean section in the John Radcliffe Hospital in 2017 said that she & # 39; s a child that was being told for something wrong. had to feel.
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Director of Birthrights, Maria Booker, said the charity had received a number of complaints about disrespectful treatment at John Radcliffe Hospital.
She said: "Confidence is bound by human rights obligations to offer individualized care.
"Any statement or policy from a trust that a caesarean would be granted on medical grounds alone may be incompatible with the obligations of trusts to conduct an open, supportive two-way interview that examines all reasonable options."
She added that any policy that is applied in a general way may be incompatible with human rights law.
Pregnant women who apply for cesarean section have to deal with multiple barriers of the majority of NHS trusts in the UK and are sometimes rightly refused, new research has revealed.
Guidelines from the women of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) who ask for cesarean section should be offered if they find it best for them after support and consultation with a doctor.
But a report of the charity of the birth. Birth law showed that only 26% of the trusts adhered to the guidelines and many women faced delays and difficulties in applying for a caesarean for non-medical reasons.
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It turned out that 47% of the trusts had an inconsistent or confusing policy regarding the offering of caesarean sections on request.
It ensured that women who had previously undergone traumatic births could not gain access to the care they needed.
The charity also said that it feared that women who might have been sexually assaulted or vulnerable because of language barriers, psychological problems, or learning disabilities were forced to undergo unsafe vaginal births.
It was found that 28% of women who were on cesarean sections did so because they had underlying health problems, such as pelvic pain, who did not meet the medical threshold for requiring caesarean section.
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Many women who asked for cesarean were told they had to go somewhere else.
Rebecca Schiller, chief executive of Birthrights, said: "It is clear that women who request cesarean sections have more convictions, barriers and disrespect than they find sympathy and support.
"We are concerned that this lack of respect for the dignity of the patient may have profound negative consequences for the emotional and physical safety of women."
The birthrights found that the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxfordshire had set up a policy to refuse all caesarean sections at the request of mothers.
Lawyers for charity have since written to the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group with the request for more information about the policy.
A woman who requested a Caesarean section in the John Radcliffe Hospital in 2017 said that she & # 39; s a child that was being told for something wrong. had to feel.
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Caesareans save lives & ndash; but they must also be celebrated as a valid choice and a positive birth requirement for many women.
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Director of Birthrights, Maria Booker, said the charity had received a number of complaints about disrespectful treatment at John Radcliffe Hospital.
She said: "Confidence is bound by human rights obligations to offer individualized care.
"Any statement or policy from a trust that a caesarean would be granted on medical grounds alone may be incompatible with the obligations of trusts to conduct an open, supportive two-way interview that examines all reasonable options."
She added that any policy that is applied in a general way may be incompatible with human rights law.
