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What is the evidence to support the use of Birthrate Plus® to guide safe staffing in maternity services?

What is the evidence to support the use of Birthrate Plus® to guide safe staffing in maternity services?
What is the evidence to support the use of Birthrate Plus® to guide safe staffing in maternity services?
The Ockendon review of maternity services at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust highlighted the urgent need to ensure adequate staffing levels in maternity care and called for a review of the feasibility and accuracy of the Birthrate Plus tool and associated methodologies. Birthrate Plus® is a system that is used to guide workforce planning for midwifery, informing decisions about the number of midwives to employ in order to maintain safe and high quality care (establishment setting). In this review we consider the available evidence to support the use of Birthrate Plus based on a recently published systematic scoping review.
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Griffiths, Peter
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Griffiths, Peter, Turner, Lesley and Lown, J. , Barker, Hannah and Fogg, Carole (eds.) (2025) What is the evidence to support the use of Birthrate Plus® to guide safe staffing in maternity services? (Evidence Brief, 28) University of Southampton 2pp.

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Abstract

The Ockendon review of maternity services at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust highlighted the urgent need to ensure adequate staffing levels in maternity care and called for a review of the feasibility and accuracy of the Birthrate Plus tool and associated methodologies. Birthrate Plus® is a system that is used to guide workforce planning for midwifery, informing decisions about the number of midwives to employ in order to maintain safe and high quality care (establishment setting). In this review we consider the available evidence to support the use of Birthrate Plus based on a recently published systematic scoping review.

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Published date: 1 March 2025

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Local EPrints ID: 501161
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/501161
PURE UUID: dbdd9196-9a4a-4cca-bd14-cf8910349208
ORCID for Peter Griffiths: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2439-2857
ORCID for Lesley Turner: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1489-3471
ORCID for Hannah Barker: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2639-3503
ORCID for Carole Fogg: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3000-6185

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Date deposited: 27 May 2025 16:59
Last modified: 17 Oct 2025 02:05

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Author: Peter Griffiths ORCID iD
Author: Lesley Turner ORCID iD
Author: J. Lown
Editor: Hannah Barker ORCID iD
Editor: Carole Fogg ORCID iD

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