101 Pregnant Women Transferred to Chase Farm

 I read another article on the problems that Barnet and Chase Farm Hospital are up against. This time it is on women in labour who are turned away from the Barnet Hospital due to lack of space.

So they transfer the patients to an already cramped Chase Farm Hospital. Not only does this cause further grievance to the Chase staff, but it naturally also offended many pregnant mothers-to-be.

Women being diverted from Barnet to Chase Farm, were initially being asked if they opted for water birth; “I was put in a room and seen by a midwife and registrar and then one of the midwives tried to persuade me to have a water birth,”

The mother refused to have a water birth, knowing fully that she would be transfered to Chase Farm. Barne deney such claims, stating they give the choice to patients, but when a hospital is full there much little they can provide. “All women are advised at their initial booking appointment that, while the trust will endeavour to offer them their preferred hospital or unit for the delivery of their baby, if that site is working at full capacity, they will be asked to attend another site within the trust’s maternity services.”

This might be the case but it is not like Chase Farm has an array of wards for the patients to be treated in, clearly there is little cohesion between the two hospitals. Not a good sign.