Characteristics of individuals involved
In stakeholder group discussions, continuity of care was not supported by all HCP and some midwives did not want to work in the context of continuity models with the belief that they would experience burnout (e.g. with on-call system), they would perceive difficulties in autonomous decision making (e.g. particularly if only worked in routine models) or they would be routinely pulled to cover conventional service needs (e.g. labour ward, community). Recruiting and retaining midwives in Trusts is often difficult and recruiting midwives to implement these care models can be a challenge [