Birth Environment

There is growing interest in the physical and psychological impacts for women and caregivers of the birth environment upon birth outcomes. Evidence indicates that careful consideration of the qualitative aspects of the birth environment can provide optimised conditions for normal birth.

Our consultancy service can fast track your facility to developing a birth environment which better protects normal birth.

How PPA can help you to create the right birth environment

PPA has conducted an extensive review of the literature on the impact of environment for birth and works with practitioners who are highly experienced in the creation of environments which enhance normal birth outcomes.

There is a growing body of literature around the significance of birth environment for normal birth outcomes . The UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s clinical guidelines for intrapartum care, reinforce the need to create birth environments which support a woman’s sense of control and increase her comfort (NICE 2014). The  research emphasizes the importance of midwifery-led care and the provision of a homely birth environment on keeping labour and birth normal. (Hodnett et al. 2012)

Why work with PPA consultancy service?

PPA’s Environment for Normal Birth consultancy supports Maternity Services through an audit process which enables them to:

• Acknowledge the strengths and celebrate the successes of their current environment for birth
• Identify challenges to the provision of optimal environments for normal birth
• Use a problem-solving approach to develop action plans for future development and improvement, to include easy to implement, immediate changes, as well as mid- and longer term structural changes
• Include staff and consumers in the consultancy process

Costs

The birthing environment consultancy service costs approximately $900/day plus expenses.

PPA’s Literature Review on Qualitative Aspects of the Birth Environment, is available as a free downloadable file from this page.  

For more information about PPA’s Environment for Normal Birth consultancy service, email us at PPA Professional Healthcare Services.