Media releases Women's Institute NCT - National Childbirth Trust Midwifery Red Flag Events Midwife Shortage STPs - Sustainability and Transformation Plans Influencing WI/NCT maternity report should be red flag event for Government say midwives 16 January 2017 Today the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and the NCT have published a report, saying that dangerously low staffing levels mean that half of women (50%) experience at least one red-flag event during childbirth.