organisational and professional issues that may impact on the quality and safety of labour
and birth care in different birth settings: Home, Freestanding Midwifery Unit, Alongside
Midwifery Unit or Obstetric Unit. This analysis examines the factors affecting the readiness of
community midwives to provide women with choice of out of hospital birth, using the findings
from the Birthplace in England Case Studies. DESIGN: organisational ethnographic case …