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Professional autonomy for midwives in the contemporary UK maternity system: part 2

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Sonmezer, Ellie (2020) Professional autonomy for midwives in the contemporary UK maternity system: part 2. British Journal of Midwifery, 29 (1). pp. 19-25. ISSN 0969-4900

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Official URL: https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.12968/...

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Professionalisation, the midwifery profession and professional autonomy are explored from a sociological perspective to answer the title question. Within part-one the obstetric influences and frictions, government policy and guidelines, risk, litigation and increasing managerialisation were considered, highlighting the complexities of professional midwifery and the challenges it faces. In part-two choice, service pressures, evidence-based care, consumerism, leadership and reflexive practice are considered in an attempt to navigate professional autonomy with the intention of retaining women’s choice as the core belief of the profession. A conceptual framework has been devised to enable this utilising the concept New Professional Midwifery. The object of this work is to keep women’s choice as the central aim.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text of the online published article via the online Library Search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	Risk, professionalisation, managerialisation, sociological imagination, new professional
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics R Medicine > RT Nursing R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Divisions:	College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Nursing and Midwifery
Related URLs:	https://info.britishjournalofmidwifery.c... https://library.worc.ac.uk/ https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/994...
Depositing User:	Ellie Sonmezer
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2020 16:24
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2021 15:15
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9943

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