Regulatory Barriers Present Challenges for At-home Birth
A broad vision of reproductive health would include a world in which women are able to choose how, where, and with whom they give birth.

A broad vision of reproductive health would include a world in which women are able to choose how, where, and with whom they give birth.
Failures of maternity care services have presented an acute patient safety issue in some parts of England in 2020.
Many patient safety adverse events across the National Health Service (NHS) in England have common causes, which exist regardless of clinical specialty.
One of many patient safety issues raised by the pandemic is that expectant mothers are considering freebirthing more after home births are cancelled.
By John Tingle Unfortunately, it’s never too long before a major NHS patient safety crisis hits the newspaper headlines in the United Kingdom. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SATH) maternity scandal has just become a major breaking U.K. patient safety news story. Shaun Lintern reports in The Independent: Hundreds of families whose babies died…