The Albany Model

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The Albany Practice provided woman-centred care as recommended by the Changing Childbirth report (DOH 1993).

Principles of the Albany Model

• Self-employed and self-managed midwifery group practice
• Sub-contracted to King’s College Hospital NHS Trust
• 7 midwives in partnership, with 2 practice support workers
• Non-clinical community base
• Providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care to women with two named midwives
• Midwives have individual caseloads
• The Practice provides care to 216 women per year
• Women referred by local GPs
• Based in an inner-city part of South-East London with recognised high levels of deprivation
• Provides antenatal and postnatal groups free to local women