I agree wholeheartedly with Kazznazz. With the 2 hospitals with the 43% vs 5% C/S rates. If the hospital with high rates are frequently on bypass they might be open during the week & be able to do elective C/S and any inductions but being closed on weekends might actually have women who birth vaginally but do so at the other hospital. While this wouldn't explain such a high percentage it might explain part of it. l
I was told by the hospital admin worker that the hosptials I spoke about are on shared by pass - they take turns, rotate the weekends between them - if anyone has information that is different, please let us know.

I will be looking into this further during the week, I'm interested in why there is such a huge difference. I will also find out when the 2007 stats are coming out, as that might be different to the 2006 ones, well at least I hope so.