Table 3.

Stakeholder consultation sample

Stakeholder group	Number of individuals interviewed	Number of individuals who took part in the focus group
Women who had recently used maternity services	8
Frontline clinicians (doctors and midwives)	19	4
Middle managers (heads of midwifery and clinical directors)	6
Individuals with a leading role in maternity programmes or initiatives	8	2
Improvement experts	11
Policy makers (eg, from National Health Service organisations)	8	2
Members of relevant professional bodies (Royal Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Royal College of Midwives)	5
Total	65	8