“…Preconception care may include the delivery of a number of preventative and interactive programmes (Bortolus et al., ), including advice on lifestyle, to optimise pregnancy outcomes on issues such as folic acid, genetic screening, environmental health, interpersonal violence, planned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, mental health, drug and alcohol use, vaccination programmes, female genital mutilation (FGM) and infertility/subfertility. This advice is important at a societal and individual level and can be empowering, particularly for women (Katz Rothman, ). Delivering preconception care may therefore produce the holistic, woman‐centred care (Royal College of Midwives, ) that nurses wish to provide.…”