Commissioning maternity care: little room for manoeuvre?

Commissioning maternity care: little room for manoeuvre?

Making Room at the Table for Obstetrics, Midwifery, and a Culture of Normalcy Within Maternity Care.

The principle of avoiding the worst possible outcomes guided the enormous successes of modern obstetrics in reducing the morbidity and mortality of childbirth. The challenges of improving the quality of childbirth today has prompted health care providers, policymakers, and patients to ask whether this principle is in fact preventing us from supporting the normal processes of childbirth, resulti...

Room for improvement: noise on a maternity ward

BACKGROUND For mothers who have just given birth, the postpartum hospital stay is meant to promote an environment where resting, healing and bonding can take place. New mothers, however, face many interruptions throughout the day including multiple visitors and noise caused by medical equipment, corridor conversations and intercom announcements. This paper argues that disruptions and noise on a...

Commissioning and contracting for integrated care

Respectful Maternity Care Toolkit

The components of this toolkit can be used by clinicians who are providing maternity care, trainers or educators of clinicians who will be providing maternity care, supervisors of clinicians who provide maternity care, program managers who develop and manage programs with a maternity care component, and by policy makers or other key stakeholders who want to promote RMC in the programs for which...