AIMS Position Paper: Continuity of Carer
There is no plan B: continuity, accountability, and maternity reform
Jo Dagustun, AIMS Volunteer and Campaigns Team Member explains why AIMS believes that community-based full pathway midwifery Continuity of Carer model of care is an essential next step in maternity service reform.
Speaking notes for meeting with Baroness Amos & Wes Streeting
London, Wednesday 4th March 2026
AIMS urges action as newly released analysis demonstrates better care when ‘full pathway continuity of carer’ is in place
With new real-world evidence showing the positive difference it makes, AIMS calls for a full pathway ‘continuity of carer’ model of care to be a key plank of the new Government’s renewed maternity transformation policy.
Scotland set to make progress in implementing full pathway Continuity of Carer? An AIMS update
AIMS wrote to Neil Gray, the Cabinet Secretary for Health & Social Care, in January this year regarding the implementation of a Continuity of Carer model of care in Scotland, after hearing him present at the Scotland Maternity & Midwifery Festival in November 2024.
How does midwife continuity of care compare with other models of care?
In this report, Catharine Hart of the AIMS Campaigns Team, tells us about a recent Cochrane study that was asking the same question.
ARM National Winter Meeting 2022: Continuity of Carer is the future. An AIMS Perspective
Jo Dagustun, AIMS Volunteer and Campaigns Team Member. This is a tidied up version of a speech that AIMS Volunteer Jo Dagustun, gave at the 2022 Winter Meeting of the Association of Radical Midwives (ARM).
AIMS Campaigns Update, December 2022: Continuity of Carer
As ever, this quarter has been a busy one for AIMS campaigners working on our flagship campaign: the call for a universal relational model of midwifery care to be in place throughout the UK.
AIMS Campaigns Update, October 2022: Continuity of Carer in England
AIMS supports the Government's ongoing commitment to the implementation of relational care - the Continuity of Carer model of care - in the maternity services across England.
Implementing Continuity of Carer in England -- Bringing the woman’s perspective to the fore
Key national milestones in the implementation of Better Births’ call for continuity of carer in the maternity services: a resource list.
Continuing to Push for Midwifery Continuity of Carer: Research Update
Further concerns about the continuity of carer principle are expressed by AIMS Volunteer Georgia Clancy as she reports on researchers at King's College London who have been exploring the implementation of continuity since Better Births and trying to identify where further research is still needed.
AIMS Campaigns Update, December 2021: Continuity of Carer in England
AIMS supports the Government's ongoing commitment to the implementation of relational care - the Continuity of Carer model of care - in the maternity maternity services across England.
Implementing Continuity of Carer in England: What can local Birth Activists do now?
In many parts of the country, there is now momentum building in favour of the implementation of a relational model of maternity care. This is something that AIMS has been campaigning for, alongside others, for decades.
Implementing Better Births: Continuity of Carer
Commissioners and providers across England, guided by their MVPs, are working across the country to implement sustainable Continuity of Carer models of care, initially for at least 20% of the women registering for maternity care from March 2019 onwards.
Midwife for Me and My Baby
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