Andrologie et gynécologie : recherches actuelles

Is It Possible to Establish a Caseload Model of Midwifery Care Across the United Kingdom?

Beatriz Caro Ballester*

Midwife Continuity of Care Model (MCOC) is a model of care designed to provide the best quality of care. Also to find the best structures or patterns of practice according to a woman ?s needs, expectations and beliefs. This model was designed with the aim to provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care by a named midwife, or small group of midwives, to women who are healthy or deemed "low risk". Therefore, MCOC enables midwives to act as facilitators, empowering women to use their own capacity of rational to make decisions regarding their pregnancy and childbirth.