Providing a quality service.

NEGLIGENCE (Ethics); MIDWIFERY; GREAT Britain. Dept. of Health; QUALITY of service; MEDICAL care; STANDARDIZATION

The article reports on the move by the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) to set the standard for midwifery staffing with a ratio of 1 midwife to 28 births. The author said that Great Britain's Department of Health has published a report stating that the quality of midwifery care must reach the first class standards of excellence. The author added that midwives want primarily to provide women with first class service from pregnancy to delivery.