The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7237 p260
22 February 2003

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More choice offered for birth pain relief

Women will be given greater choice in the pain relief they may receive during while giving birth under new guidelines from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (our Lobby correspondent writes).

Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Glasgow, Health Secretary Alan Milburn said that he wants women to make informed choices about how and where their babies are delivered and about what type of pain relief to have. "Some women already exercise these choices," he said. "I now want to make them available to all."