Workforce

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Workforce

• Daghni Rajasingham
• Margaret Richardson
• Eleanor Hobart

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Maternity project
Needs Assessment
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Workstream objectives

• Review the evidence base for new delivery models
  of care along maternity pathways including role
  of obstetric units, development of midwifery led
  services, antenatal and postnatal provision,
  exploring
• the impact of workforce on provision of services
• Provide support to commissioners to enable them
  to commission along clinically evidenced pathways
  of care. Establish the requirements and
  implications of commissioning the models of care,
  specifically
• implications for workforce, training and
  education, including definitions for standards
  for practitioners and services, initiate work on
  a workforce model appropriate to the proposed
  model of care
• Note full objectives linked to models of care

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Workstream focus and deliverables

• Focus of work
• Undertake workforce analysis
• Build on work developed through Maternity
  Services Improvement Board
• Outline workforce implications of delivering the
  care pathway and solutions to bridge any gaps.
  Specifically focusing on the implications
• Deliverables
• Undertake an initial assessment of current
  workforce and workforce required in order to meet
  the core standards (mapped by provider)
• Identify the workforce implications for
  introducing new models of care, including the
  impact of other projects on the maternity
  workforce e.g. paediatrics.
• Develop a workforce modelling tool equipping
  commissioners with the key information to
  understand the workforce implications of
  introducing new models of care

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Questions

• If midwife roles need to change in future models
  of care, what midwife competencies are required
  and how will this be met through education and
  training?
• Should 98 hour obstetrician presence be mandatory
  across London? What would this mean to do so or
  not to?
• How will local services cope without on-site
  paediatricians?

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