Neighbourhood Midwives; The John Lewis of midwifery?

So, here were four strong-minded independent midwives who had chosen to be self-employed and who had vowed never to work for someone else again. Having to create an employing organisation that would meet all the necessary governance standards, to obtain insurance and CQC registration, but still allow us to feel and work as autonomous practitioners was a huge challenge. Midwifery has a proud tradition of autonomy; we do not need to be supervised by a medical practitioner and we have our own Code of Conduct and supervisory system. It was therefore vital to us that our new organisation provided midwives with as much freedom over their daily ...