This important book makes the case for placing maternity care in the c ommunity. It has been written by a multidisciplinary group. The first section considers the role and function of the participants in communi ty-based maternity care; the woman, the midwife, and the GP. The secon d section discusses four major contemporary issues: the radically chan ging social background, the economics of care, audit, and education of the carers. Next the major clinical challenges in maternity care are tackled: how to reduce the differences in morbidity and mortality whic h are associated with differences...

The authors include practitioners and academics, service providers and counselling clients, supporters and skeptics. Overall they offer a co mprehensive and thought provoking guide to those responsible for commi ssioning, working with providing counslling services in a health servi ce that seeks to be increasingly primary care led and evidence based. This book discusses the establishment and evaluation of counselling se rvices in primary care and the need to consider the most appropriate f orms of service for different groups. It describes the specialist coun selling services that are...