United but divided? The need to consider the potential consequences of devolved UK government on midwifery education and practice

Cheyne, Helen, McNeill, Jennifer, Hunter, Billie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8064-3609 and Bick, Debra 2011. United but divided? The need to consider the potential consequences of devolved UK government on midwifery education and practice. Midwifery 27 (6) , pp. 770-774. 10.1016/j.midw.2011.09.008

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Abstract

The health policy setting in which midwives practice is rapidly changing as the philosophy, structure and funding of the NHS across the four countries of the UK becomes increasingly diverse. Recent headlines have predicted the break-up of the National Health Service (NHS) in England ( [Lancet, 2011] and [Pollock, 2011]), and have highlighted that the devolution of the United Kingdom (UK) government is having an impact on the NHS far beyond what was anticipated at its introduction in 1999 ( [16], [3] and [28]). Within the UK, all relevant stakeholders including clinicians, educators, policy, service commissioning and service user representatives should be aware of the changing political landscape and the effect this may have on the provision of high quality maternity care across the UK. In this commentary we highlight some of the similarities and differences in the NHS across the four UK countries and reflect on some of the possible impacts on midwifery education and practice.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Healthcare Sciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics R Medicine > RT Nursing
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0266-6138
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 14:24
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17382

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