**14. Conclusion**

VBAC has clinical and public health importance with the overall aim of reducing caesarean section rate and its short- and long-term complications. There is a need to prevent unnecessary primary caesarean sections to curtail the alarmingly rising rates of caesarean sections in developing and developed countries. Women with a prior single lower segment caesarean section should be carefully selected during prenatal care and offered the option of planned VBAC. The use of check list, VBAC predictive score and scrutiny of surgical and clinical notes is a safe way to carefully select prospective mothers and improve VBAC success rates and eliminate complications related to VBAC. Every facility should implement regular audits to reflect on case management, improve patient selection and VBAC success rate.
