1. The 13th International Conference of the Jordanian Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists – 31 August-2 September Professor Lesley Page, President, The Royal College of Midwives, United Kingdom Call your midwife/choose your birth

2. Call your Midwife, choose your birth

3. Midwifery care UK Obstetric units (midwives and doctors) Midwifery led units in hospital Midwifery led units out of hospital Home birth and community midwifery Midwifery led relational continuity of care

4. Relationships: the pathway to safe, high-quality maternity care
Sheila Kitzinger symposium
at Green Templeton College, Oxford
Summary report

5. Sheila Kitzinger symposium group Green Templeton College Oxford University Oct 2015

6. Importance of pregnancy and birth
A woman’s relationship with her maternity providers is vitally important. Not only are these encounters the vehicle for essential lifesaving health services, but women’s experiences with caregivers can empower and comfort or inflict lasting damage and emotional trauma.’  White Ribbon Alliance, Respectful Maternity Care, 2011

7. Safe and high quality care
That leads to healthy physical and psychological outcomes, supports family relationships and reduces the impact of inequalities
Requires models that meet each woman and baby’s health, personal and social needs and preferences
Safety increased by understanding and reinforcing the ability to bridge gaps and discontinuities in care, reducing variations in outcomes

8. Relational continuity: benefits for women

9. Group practices Caseload holding Team midwifery
Women and midwives getting to know each other over time – continuity of relationship
Group practices
Caseload holding
Team midwifery

10. Midwife led continuity of carer 15 trials involving 17,674 women)
Midwife-led continuity of care associated with several benefits for mothers and babies, and no adverse effects compared with models of medical-led care and shared care.
Sandall J, Soltani H, Gates S, Shennan A, Devane D. Midwife-led continuity
models versus other models of care for childbearing women. Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews 2015, Issue 9. Art. No.: CD

11. Outcomes and experiences

12. Outcomes

13. Women’s experience

14. Choose your birth

17. Simple things work

19. The Sheila Kitzinger Programme at Green Templeton College was established in 2015 in honour of the life and work of social anthropologist Sheila Kitzinger, who died in April It aims to build on Sheila's work and broad interests and the concerns that she championed. For more information: Green Templeton College, Oxford Kings College London The Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, (CLAHRC) South London Download the report at:

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