Birth Centres

Mavis Kirkham is currently Professor of Midwifery at the University of Sheffield. She has been a clinical midwife for twenty years and has many years of experience of midwifery education.

Foreword: Baroness Cumberlege Introduction: Mavis Kirkham Section 1: Birth Centres in the UK Chapter 1 - Birth Centres in the UK (Julie Hall) Chapter 2 - Setting up a Birth Centre (Helen Shallow) Chapter 3 - The Wiltshire Model (Rick Porter and/or Vicky Tinsley) Chapter 4 - Grantham's Midwife Managed Unit (Diane Fraser, Kim Watts, Fehmidah Munir) Chapter 5 - Crowborough (Richard Hallett) Section 2: The Edgeware Birth Centre Chapter 6 - Consumers in the driving seat: a public health perspective (Ellizabeth Manero, Linda Turner, Stephen Farrow) Chapter 7 - From concept to the Working Model (Olive Jones, Jane Walker) Chapter 8 - Trusts in Partnership (John Spencer, Susan Dolman) Chapter 9 - A GPs Perspective (Jean Beney) Chapter 10 - Evaluation of the Edgeware Birth Centre (Jean Chapple, Dawn Saunders, Mary Boulton) Chapter 11 - The Economic Implications (Julie Ratcliffe) Chapter 12 - Midwifery Assistants (Jane Walker) Section 3 - Birth Centres in the Wider World Chapter 13 - The New Zealand Experience (Sally Pairman, Karen Guilliland) Chapter 14 - RCT of Birth Centre Care in Stockholm (Ulla Waldenstrom) Chapter 15 - Birth Centres in Australia (Kate Griew and Jen Byrne) Chapter 16 - Birth Centres in Germany (Monika Selow/Elisabeth Groh) Chapter 17 - Birth Centres in Austria (Beate Elvira Pfeifenberger-Lamprecht) Chapter 18 - An interview with Suzanne de Bearn of Saint Therese Maternity Home, France Chapter 19 - Birth Centres in Italy (Verene Schmid) Chapter 20 - Birth Centres in North America (Linda Arnold, Angela Frans) Section 4 - The Way Forward (Mavis Kirkham)