Midwifery 2020 (2): education and career progression

The Midwifery 2020: Delivering expectations vision is that midwives will be members of a highly skilled workforce, acting as lead professionals and coordinators of care as they deliver innovative, cost-effective, quality care across integrated health and social care contexts. They will embrace an evolving public health role and initiate and respond to change. There is, based on the key messages, an opportunity for midwifery educationalists to enhance their collaboration with service colleagues and researchers across the four U.K. countries to further develop appropriate curricula. The relationship between service and education colleagues needs, perhaps more than ever, to continue to be collaborative. The challenge is focused not only on skills and knowledge to enhance practice, but also to enthuse midwives to be actively committed and resourceful, as well as being politically sensitive to current and future service provision challenges.