We are told that a senior specialist thinks it will be better to close local maternity units so that we can all have the benefit of senior specialist care in centres of excellence.
This is the most recent example of people who don't know how the other half live making rules for the rest of us. Chances are this senior specialist has never had a baby!
What we need is to be in easy reach of our much-trusted midwife, who knows us. Most of us just go ahead and have a normal baby in a normal way. Sometimes there are false alarms - you don't want to have travelled miles to a strange hospital to be sent home again. This is turning a normal process, more and more often accomplished at home, into something weird and wonderful that needs specialists. If that is the case we are grateful that they exist, but it's probably only in 5% of cases.
We are being driven mad by people who have no "real" life experience making daft rules. This, increasingly, includes politicians who know nothing but politics.
This blog is a plea for common sense in public policy. Our leaders don't seem to have any. They just make daft rules for us to follow. We need to assert our right to use our own good sense instead of ticking boxes which can only say 'yes' or 'no'.
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