Østfold Hospital has reduced the number of caesarean births by almost 19 percent within one year.
The good cooperation between physicians and midwives have been a very important contribution, says deputy department head Mette Thomson at the Women's Clinic. The national average for many years was Østfold Hospital high on the statistics of the hospitals that perform many cesarean section. In 2009, 20.6 percent of the children at the hospital to the world of imperial ways.
Last year, the proportion of caesarean section down to 17.7 percent, which is the same as the national average - and a decline of over 18 percent. - The most important thing we have done has been to focus on the subject. All have been conscious that we want to reduce the number of caesarean sections. And all the little efforts have together made a very good result, says Thomson. Planning a better One of the measures have been an even closer collaboration between doctors and midwives to plan births in progress. It has also been aimed that the midwife is to present at the delivery room all the time when the birth is well established.
