TY - JOUR T1 - Home deliveries JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 437 LP - 438 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X302781 VL - 58 IS - 551 AU - Tony Leake Y1 - 2008/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/551/437.2.abstract N2 - I am aged 83 and was a GP for 34 years from 1954. I was on the GP obstetric list in Bradford, Yorkshire and so had responsibility for home deliveries of my patients. I was appalled to see on the television yesterday that a report published in the BJOG1 stated that babies born at home who needed to be rushed to hospital as emergencies were eight times as likely to die on transfer … ER -