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CE MARK
93/42/EEC
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT
- Enter a new support
request here.
- Call Jacqui Burke on
44 (0) 7894 424270
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NHS Community Programmes
>> Go to NHS Unit Programmes instead.
The Good Birth Company provides Community solutions for NHS Trusts seeking to increase access to water birth or to increase their home birth rate.
Trusts can choose from a range of service provision and costs to women:
| Service Level |
Description |
Cost to Trust |
Cost to Woman |
| A: Low |
Trust buys pools for Community Teams, women buy their own liners and accessories. Sometimes the Trust buys the liners and charges woman for them.
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Lowest:
from £196 upfront per pool & inflate pump and zero cost per birth |
Highest:
£45 - £100
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| B: Medium |
Trust buys liners, pools and pumps for Community Teams, women buy their own single-use filling accessories |
Medium:
from £100 upfront per pool and pump set plus £25 per birth cost for liners |
Medium:
£12-25 |
| C: High |
Trust buys & supplies everything required, using re-usable pool and pump set |
High:
from £100 upfront per pool and pump set plus £45 per birth cost for liners and other single use accessories |
Lowest:
£ zero |
| D: High |
Trust buys & supplies everything required, using personal pool and single use accessories, reducing work for midwives and ensuring women & partner take responsibility for pool |
Highest:
from £140 per birth depending on accessories specified
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Lowest:
£ zero
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 Birth Pool in a Box Professional pools are FREE to NHS Trusts with the purchase of 20 disposable liners at £25 each. The Professional pools are particularly designed for repeated use with their higher-spec material and double-skinned base.
"The adjustable height and the soft, yet sturdy sides of the pool were great assets when we managed a shoulder dystocia birth. A rigid-sided pool would have made it much more difficult."
- Lynn Mayo, Team Leader, Andover Birth Centre
Birth Pool in a Box's features and their design rationale are explained here. See dimensions and water capacity.
Community Teams currently offering Birth Pool in a Box include:
| NHS Trust |
Description |
Service Level |
| Royal Oldham Hospital Community Teams |
2 pools on Community teams for home birth use. |
A |
| John Radcliffe Hospital Community Teams |
1 pool on Community team for home birth use. |
A |
| Stockport Community Teams |
2 pools on Community teams for home birth use. |
A |
| Royal Hallamshire Community Teams, Sheffield |
19 pools on Vommunity Teams for home birth use. |
B |
| Liverpool Women's Hospital Community Teams |
20 pools on Community teams for home birth use. |
A |
| Homerton Hospital, London |
2 pools on Community teams |
A |
| St. Mary's, London Community Teams |
2 pools on community teams for home birth use |
A |
| Milton Keynes Community Teams |
One pool for each community team, with women buying consumables |
A |
| Liskeard East Cornwall Community Teams |
2 pools on team for community use |
B |
| Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan |
1 pool on community team |
B |
| Jersey General Hospital |
2 pools for community use |
C |
| St. Richard's Hospital, Chichester |
1 pool on community, 1 on delivery suite |
B |
| Salisbury Community Teams |
4 pools for use on community, with women buying consumables |
A |
 An additional benefit of programmes A-C is the reduced environmental impact arising from re-use of Professional pools compared to single use Personal pools.
We can assist in the process of evaluation and have a draft Water Birth Clinical Guidelines document which you can adapt as you wish. Complete the enquiry form below and we will contact you.
>> Enquiries from outside UK: go to main hospitals page
>> Existing Customers: enter a support request
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