Our new research looked at what this means for VBAC. We analysed data about 172,000 low-risk women who gave birth for the first time in New South Wales between 2001 and 2016.

Adherence to staffing standards was relatively high (mean, 3.12 of possible 1 to 4 score). Nurse staffing was an independent predictor of hospital-level cesarean and VBAC rates when adjusting for ...