{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-43.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/734",
  "legislation_title": "The Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Obstetric services further requirements",
  "text": "(1) The registered person must ensure that—\n(a) any death of a patient in an independent hospital during, or as a result of, pregnancy or childbirth; and\n(b) any stillbirth or neonatal death in an independent hospital,\nare reported to any person undertaking an enquiry into such deaths on behalf of Welsh Ministers.\n(2) The registered person must ensure that facilities are available within the hospital to provide adequate treatment to patients who have undergone a delivery requiring surgical intervention or the use of forceps and that such patients are cared for by an appropriately experienced midwife.\n(3) The registered person must ensure that appropriate arrangements are in place for the immediate transfer, where necessary, of a patient and her new born child to critical care facilities within the hospital or elsewhere in the near vicinity.\n(4) The registered person must ensure that appropriate arrangements are in place for the treatment and, if necessary transfer to a specialist care facility, of a very sick patient or new born child.\n(5) The registered person must ensure that a maternity record is maintained for each patient receiving obstetric services and each child born in the hospital, which—\n(i) includes the details specified in regulation 23(1)(a) and in Parts I and II of Schedule 4; and\n(ii) is retained for a period of not less than 25 years beginning on the date of the last entry; and the requirements of regulation 23(2) will apply to that record.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“stillbirth” (“marw-enedigaeth”) has the meaning given to it in the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953;\n“neonatal death” (“marwolaeth plentyn newydd-anedig”) means the death of a child before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date of the child’s birth.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 43 in force at 5.4.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/734/regulation/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:51:10.955714+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}