Midwives appeared more likely as a group than health visitors to take this approach.
Were midwives to examine all babies on normal wards, savings would increase to approximately £4.30 per baby born or £2.5 million nationally.
However, frequency of contact with midwives did not entail consistency of service.
As such, women are generally able to access midwives for community-based ante- and postnatal care through the national health services.
Another factor was whether infants were delivered by doctors or midwives.
Some trained midwives had their special licences wrongly replaced by ordinary ones and some midwives were charged for licences they never received.
The training programme focused increasingly on white midwives as the acceptable face of midwifery.
It is often within the semantics of 'safety' that midwives and obstetricians hold widely disparate views.
