PURPOSE:
To share the projet "Normal Birth Unit" the first midwifery unit in Portugal and To receive contributions of improvement from experts

DISCUSSION:
The Normal Delivery Unit (NDU) is characterized as an innovative pilot project in Portugal in ​​maternal-fetal health care, aimed at a target group of healthy women with low-risk pregnancies. This care model is based on the work of nurse midwives, who perform their functions autonomously, ensuring personalized and quality care to this group of pregnant women. Portugal, in the Lisbon and the Tagus Valley region, due to the lack of obstetricians that prevents us from ensuring emergency shifts, the health autorirtys have been closing Obstetrics emmergencies in a planned manner under the Birth in Safety program.This situation has led to a decrease in access for users with low-risk pregnancies, a decrease in the number of births performed and an increase in births with multiple clinical interventions and generates feelings of insecurity among the pregnant population about where and how to access care for childbirth. As the culture of the nurse midwives team, is based on promoting physiological birth, only justifying intervention to the strict extent that the maternal or fetal condition requires it, focusing care on the user and seeking to provide positive birth experiences, the nurse midwives team proposes the development of a pilot project in the NHS, through the creation of a NDU, adjacent to the Delivery Unit. We would like to share our projet , its mission, vision, guiding values ​​and principles, and strategic and operational objectives; and receive contributs to improvemment

EVIDENCE WHERE RELEVANT:
The projet was presented to Administration, Executive diretion of NHS and Health Minister and received a ver positive feedback and interest.

KEY MESSAGE:
An important aspect of implementing evidence-based care during maternity is to expand the provision of midwives-led care spaces and increase women’s access to them (WHO, 2016) Place of birth - hospital (including three-minute presentation competition)