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Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 7 maternity services and support for new parents
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Service Framework (NSF) for children, young people and maternity services published by the Department of Health in autumn 2004 says that it should be a priority to reduce inequalities in the health of different groups and to promote choice amongst all users of child, family and maternity support services. The section of the NSF concerned with maternity services (Standard 11), spells out in several places what this should mean in terms of providing maternity services to parents in disadvantaged communities or needing specific extra help. Primary Care Trusts are encouraged to take a careful look at the reasons why people from these groups find it difficult to access and maintain contact with maternity services and to ‘take active steps to design services that overcome these barriers to care’.