Dear Madeline, Regarding your query about Free Standing Birth Centre capacity; my first thought on a good contact would be Linda Bird, the Community Midwifery Manager for Burton Hospitals, UK.  Burton have a small FSBC in Lichfield, Staffordshire which I think is about the size you're looking at. I don't have Linda's email address any more (maybe someone else on the list does), but at an educated guess, it is probably[log in to unmask]"> [log in to unmask] Linda is rightly very proud of the Lichfield Birth Centre and I expect she'd be happy to tell you about it. Best wishes Juliet Rayment PhD Candidate in the Sociology of Midwifery Department of Sociology University of Warwick [log in to unmask]