And, as the NHS Five Year Vision also stated that the review should make it easier for midwifery groups to set up their own NHS-funded midwifery services, this showed me how maternity reviews and legislative changes can have a colossal impact on the midwifery profession and if I were accepted onto this course, be educated on such topics and work with a wide range of women from different cultures, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds -economical would be a great motivator for me. Being able to get their opinion on Baroness Cumberlege's maternity review gave me an awareness of how the NHS Five Year Forward View expressed that it should be "made easier for midwifery groups creating their own NHS-funded obstetric services" ' had an impact on them as midwives. Outside of college I enjoy reading, I subscribe to the British Journal of Midwifery which keeps me up to date with the clinical reviews and research available to midwives. I regularly read other obstetrics books and also enjoy walking, watching films and am a keen baker. I see my friends regularly and believe it is important to have a good work-life balance and my family helps me do this by supporting me in my studies to become a midwife. I am truly motivated to become a midwife and would be privileged to be accepted into a