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A New Version Of The Intrapartum Acuity Tool |
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With excellent contribution from some of our experienced users, we have made significant improvements to the I/P Acuity Tool to give more detailed analyses of the results obtained from the simple data entry on a 2 or 4 hourly bases throughout the 24 hours. The information, presented in tables and graphs, will enable you to know the cause of having too few midwives for the acuity and what action(s) were taken to resolve the situation. Also the data will highlight if there are certain periods in the day/night and days of the week when the acuity is often above the available number of midwives. A ‘traffic light’ system will notify your Escalation Policy.
For more information, please contact Marie Washbrook as follows:
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07768 470269 |
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RATIOS FOR MIDWIFERY WORKFORCE PLANNING AT NATIONAL, SHA AND LOCAL LEVEL |
(copyright Birthrate Plus(R); May 2009)
Introduction and overview
 In recent years there has been increasing need to produce some basis for recommending ratios of births per w.t.e. midwife to enable large-scale workforce planning based upon projected annual hospital and home births. Birthrate Plus® has made a number of contribution to large scale planning by drawing on it's data gathered from detailed workforce planning studies in maternity services across the United Kingdom. (DOH 2003, Ball et al 2003, Ball 2004, 2005) in 2007 we first offered differentiated ratios linked to different levels of service; details of which follow, and we can provide different options for workforce planning using these ratios together with local information..........please see separate section on different options for workforce assessment. The data for studies undertaken in 2008 has now been added to the database and the ratios have been reviewed, and apart from the ratio for community care, remain the same. |
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