The Irish National Maternity Strategy (2016) endorses woman centred care and recommends women be offered choice of three care pathways based on preference, clinical need, and best evidence. Care is provided by midwives within The Supported Care Pathway, upholding seamless routes of referral and reciprocal transfer as appropriate to assisted and specialised care pathways (DOH, 2016). At the Regional hospital Mullingar the candidate AMP for Supported Care is developing a pathway providing care to pregnant women within specified criteria in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period encompassing four key service development priorities. These priorities aim to promote woman centred care empowering women to make evidence based decisions relative to their birth choices. The poster reflects the journey and some of the data and outcomes thus far.
