Kent and Sussex mums-to-be to get more control over birth plans

EXPECTANT mums will be able to take more control over how they give birth thanks to a merger between west Kent and East Sussex NHS trusts.Currently, many women cross the Kent and East Sussex border both ways for maternity care, depending on choice or their needs.But a bid by NHS West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS High Weald Lewes and Havens CCG, and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) will help to streamline the process.It means that over the next 18 months, notional...