Analysis reveals midwives' exclusion from policy impacts staffing ratios and decision-making, suggesting the need for greater political engagement.
Every policy relating to birth, every funding decision, every staffing ratio, in fact every time a midwife is left out of decision-making – it’s political. None of this is by accident. It’s policy. And policy is power. And for far too long, midwives have largely implemented policies made by others, rather than being collective drivers of policy change.1
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