Women will be able to use it to pay for anything from one-to-one midwifery care to home births, water birth and hypnotherapy.

‘Pregnant women will be given a £3,000 NHS budget to choose where and how to give birth as most of the maternity facilities are poorly maintained in England.
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A National Maternity Review highlighted issues on maternal services and the huge amount of money spent by the government on clinical negligence cases relating to maternity care.




Therefore, the government has now announced that the personalized budget can be utilized for NHS-accredited services like,
- Private midwifery services during pregnancy and labor
- Home birth
- Water births
- hypnotherapy
Source-Medindia