Coventry and Warwickshire
AEQUIP Partnership
subtitle
Pilot Phase
Pilot Steering group – 3 x HoMs, LME Coventry University, Matrons, Clinical Risk
Managers, Midwife Research Fellow, SoMs team
UHCW GEH SWFT
4 PMAs 3 PMAs 3 PMAs
Newly qualified midwives (Band 5) offered PMA meeting
Improved cross-organisation
working and shared workloads
Beyond the Pilot
What next?
Annual PMA Employer Midwife
meeting requested PMA requested PMA
All midwives take meeting When a midwife
responsibility for feels they require a
scheduling their When incident
occurs or concerns meeting
own
arise (Always if
referral to NMC)
Within Trust PMA meeting with Either Within Trust
a PMA from a or with Partner
Partner Trust Trust
Midwifery PMA Bridging Full PMA course Ratio 1:16-18
Lecturers (SoMs) Programme planned to
delivered to SoMs
Attended ‘Train in December and increase number
the Trainers’ of PMA
Januaury
Beyond the Pilot
What next?
• SoMs at 3x Trusts offered opportunity to become
PMAs
All 3 Trust’s can refer to Coventry University for Educational support
• Terms of reference agreed
• Support the employment terms of PMAs
• Promote the A EQUIP model
• Feedback on themes emerging from PMA
activity
• Support PMA training and education
programmes.
• Sharing of new initiatives with a safety focus.
• To contribute to Quality Improvement and
Quality Assurance
• Remain engaged with national agenda: Better
Births
• Explore opportunities for personal and
professional development for PMAs
• Pilot Steering group – Membership consolidated
and ToR established
• Lead PMA (Band 7) - Hosted at one trust with
Hon contract at others to serve PMA’s across the
patch
• Short course delivered by CU will provide total of
28 PMAS: 460 midwives gives a ratio of 1:16
• Newly qualified midwives (Band 5) allocated to
current PMAs
Working out the finer details……..
SoM meeting
How do we implement?
Midwives should take responsibility Partnership
for ensuring they have a PMA model to be
meeting maintained
PMA’s should not Information Records and
be line manager required ahead meeting
outcomes
of meeting
Branding, profile and outputs
Social Media
Plans to utilise
Logo agreed
Uniform: Polo shirts
“RCS has empowered me “It feels as if we are
to be an advocate for actually caring for the
midwives rather than a carers and offering
”problem solver. ”them 'time for me‘
“giving midwives the “the recent study sessions
opportunity to sit, have restored my faith,
breathe and think…… excitement and passion for
can help them feel
valued, listened too , ”the role
“important