organisational form in the Birthplace in England Research Programme, to which this is a follow-onstudy. The number of such … The aims of this study were to investigate how care is organised and provided in alongsidemidwiferyunits (AMUs), commonly called birth centres. We use the term ‘alongsidemidwiferyunit’ to distinguish hospital-based birth centres from free-standing midwiferyunits (FMUs) (or free-standing birth centres) and to …
Abstract
An ethnographic organisational study of alongside midwifery units: a follow-on study from the Birthplace in England programme