This meeting aims to:

• Review the continued rise in interventions during labour
• Inform on practice and to promote normal birth
• Discuss practice on reducing caesarean section rates
• Increase awareness of the variation of interventions in labour across the UK
• Create awareness of the wider effects of interventions on mother and baby.

• Dr Miranda Dodwell, User Representative, BirthChoiceUK, Visiting Research Associate, King's College London
• Dr Alison Kirkpatrick, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Frimley Park Hospital
• Mrs Gillian Fletcher MBE, NCT Antenatal Teacher and Tutor
• Dr Karen King, Consultant Midwife, Cresswell Maternity Wing, Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary
• Dr Mary Stewart, Research Midwife, Life Study, University College London
• Mrs Trixie McAree, Consultant Midwife for Normal Birth, Supervisor of Midwives, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
• Dr Kate Langford, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• Dr Vimal Vasu, Consultant Neonatologist, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust