IHAâs engagement with bundled payment emerged from a value-based purchasing project as a promising opportunity to align incentives and improve coordination across care settings. In 2009, the California HealthCare Foundation funded an IHA pilot project to test implementation of bundled payments in California. A year later, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded IHA a three-year grant to expand the bundled payment demonstration.
And if you're jetting off on holiday you can take advantage of travelling light, with no pushchair, nappies or toys in tow. If you're carrying one baby and you've had an uncomplicated pregnancy, then you can fly up to 36 weeks of pregnancy.
Most doctors do not mind pregnant women flying during their first trimester; it is actually during the third trimester that pregnant women are told not to fly as it could trigger labor. Flying during the first trimester may be unadvisable if it involves too much stress which could harm the baby and the mother. It is also unadvisable if the woman has had a history of miscarriages or ill health. Flying may cause air sickness which pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to.