Hospitals in England will no longer promote natural births over C-sections, as part of a plan to improve care.
The NHS in England will no longer limit the amount of Caesarean sections it performs, under plans to improve care for mothers and babies.
In a letter seen by BBC News, maternity staff have been told to treat cases on an individual basis and followWhat is a Caesarean birth?Caesarean sections are when a baby is delivered through a surgical cut into the abdomen and womb.planned - usually for medical reasons, such as the baby is either in the wrong position or very largeMore than one out of every four babies born in England is now delivered by either elective or emergency Caesarean.
"We therefore ask all maternity services to stop using total Caesarean section rates as a means of performance management, as we are concerned by the potential for services to pursue targets that may be clinically inappropriate and unsafe in individual cases," the letter says.
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