Empowering change: realist evaluation of a Scottish Government programme to support normal birth (2013)

Summary

This realist evaluation aimed to explore and explain the ways in which a programme initiated by the Scottish Government, Keeping Childbirth Natural and Dynamic (KCND), worked or did not work in different maternity care contexts. KCND was a maternity care programme that aimed to support normal birth by implementing multiprofessional care pathways and making midwife-led care for healthy pregnant women the national norm.