Date Time Study goal to reduce rates of C-section Reducing the rate of caesarean section and improving the quality of labour and childbirth management is the goal of a new two-year project led by Burnet Institute Principal Research Fellow, Associate Professor Joshua Vogel. Work will focus on the development of an implementation strategy to assess the effectiveness of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recently updated Labour Care Guide in a pilot trial in four maternity hospitals in India. The WHO Labour Care Guide is a next generation partograph – a clinical tool used by maternity care providers to monitor and manage labour – based on WHO’s latest intrapartum care recommendations.