Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune,
general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National
Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow
in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery
education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young,
general practitioner, Penrith.