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.
University of Southampton
Griffiths, Peter
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Turner, Lesley
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1 March 2025
Griffiths, Peter
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Fogg, Carole
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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
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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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