1. Creating the future for the midwifery profession Midwifery and midwives: policy issues
David Foster
Head of the Nursing, Midwifery
and Allied Health Professions Policy Unit

2. Conservative manifesto
Increase NHS spending to £8bn a year by 2020
Provide seven-day-a-week access to NHS services
Guarantee that everyone over 75 will get a same-day GP’s appointment if they need one.
David Cameron
Midwifery and midwives: policy issues

3. Conservative manifesto commitments
take action to reduce childhood obesity and continue to promote clear food information
implement a national, evidence-based diabetes prevention programme
invest more in primary care, to help prevent health problems before they start
continue to support research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases and cancers
ensure that there are therapists in every part of the country providing mental health treatment for those who need it
experiencing mental ill-health, including children and young people
ensure that women have access to mental health support during and after pregnancy, while strengthening the health visiting programme for new mothers
Midwifery and midwives: policy issues

4. Secretary of State Global quality Care experience? Maternity care?
Stillbirths?
Jeremy Hunt
Midwifery and midwives: policy issues

5. Secretary of State
Your leadership matters more to the NHS than any of my policies
Value-based leadership matters, as your share values with staff proves
£22bn efficiency gains – which are not cuts
The path to safer care is the same path as to lower costs
Take steps to reduce agency spend
Nye Bevan – “universalise the best”
NHS Confederation speech, June 2015
Jeremy Hunt
Midwifery and midwives: policy issues

6. Independent review of maternity services
Review workstreams
Communication and engagement
Models of Care
Choice
Professional culture and accountability
Levers and incentives
Baroness Cumberlege
Midwifery and midwives: policy issues

7. Midwifery supervision
Legislative change
Parliamentary time
Local Supervising Authority
Spring 2017?
Regulator’s changes
Revalidation
Midwives Rules and Standards
Protected function
No change
UK redesign of supervision
Midwifery and midwives: policy issues

8. Immanuel Kant (philosopher 1724 – 1804)
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
Immanuel Kant (philosopher 1724 – 1804)