"The RCM believes that our survey shows that progress is being made by maternity services in making home birth available. However, the fact that all women do not yet have a choice of a homebirth and the actual homebirth rate is static suggests that more needs to be done and funding sustained at a local level to ensure women are given a choice of a home birth."
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Progress made on providing choice of homebirth but funding needs to be sustained
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Commenting on the Office of National Statistics' release of homebirth figures today (8 December 2009), Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, said: "The RCM wants women to have a genuine choice of homebirth. A recent survey with RCM and Netmums, the online parenting website, of 3,508 mothers was encouraging and showed that 68 per cent of the women surveyed had a choice about where to have their babies and 55 per cent of those women were offered a home birth.
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