Don't risk a home birth if you're pregnant, health secretary warns mothers amid strikes - they might struggle get an ambulance if there's a problem
There have been a series of warnings telling the public to avoid doing anything that might end up with a risk of them needing hospital.
Ambulance workers throughout England and Wales are walking out over a pay dispute, a day after nurses went on strike – leaving the NHS in turmoil.Unions and ministers accuse each other of harming patients as 999 strikes start, with Brits warned to 'take extra care'Category one calls like cardiac arrests are to be covered but services for category two calls like heart attacks may be patchier.
"That is why many trusts have advised mothers not to have home births, so the advice has been, in terms of those mothers, not to go ahead with home births and to come in to a hospital setting as one of the precautions that is being put in place." "In view of this, we strongly recommend that if you go into labour on the day of the strike that you give birth at the maternity service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital or West Middlesex University Hospital."Read more:
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