MIDWIFERY 2020 - DELIVERING EXPECTATIONS
Midwifery 2020 was commissioned by the Chief Nurses of the Health Departments of Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales in 2008 to develop a vision of midwifery to help midwives across the UK fulfil women's health and social needs and expectations. The aim was to consolidate the achievements that midwifery has made and to identify changes needed to the ways midwives work, their role, responsibilities, and the education, training and professional development needed to achieve these outcomes.
Midwifery 2020 has been a unique UK-wide collaborative programme of work with the full and active involvement of the four UK Chief Nursing Officers and carried out in partnership with the Royal college of Midwives (RCM), the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), and with key stakeholders in maternity care, professional bodies, higher education, user organisation, employers and commissioners of service and education across all four countries.
The key messages in Midwifery 2020 - Delivering Expectations underpin the vision of how midwives can lead and deliver care in a changing environment.
The work is already underway in Scotland through various initiatives eg Keeping Childbirth Natural and Dynamic (KYND) and we want to continue to build on this to ensure the highest quality and safest experience for all women.
Further information and details of the report can be found on the Midwifery 2020 website, or download the Midwifery 2020 report here.