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Community midwives views of postnatal care in the UK ; a descriptive qualitative study
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Kokab, Farina, Jones, Eleanor, Goodwin, Laura, Taylor, Beck and Kenyon, Sara (2022) Community midwives views of postnatal care in the UK ; a descriptive qualitative study. Midwifery, 104 . 103183. doi:10.1016/j.midw.2021.103183 ISSN 0266-6138.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.103183
Abstract
Objective
To explore views and experiences of community midwives delivering postnatal care.
Design
A descriptive qualitative study design undertaking focus groups with community midwives and community midwifery team leaders.
Setting
All focus groups were carried out in community midwifery care settings, across four hospitals in two NHS organisations, April to June 2018 in the West Midlands, UK.
Participants
47 midwives: 34 community midwives and 13 community midwifery team leaders took part in 7 focus groups.
Findings
Inductive framework analysis of data led to the development of themes and sub-themes relating to factors influencing discharge from hospital, strategies to address increases in discharge and the broader challenges to providing care. Conditions on the postnatal ward and women's experiences of care in the hospital were factors influencing timing of discharge from hospital that resulted in community midwives managing women and babies with more complex needs. In order to manage increased workloads, there was growing but varied use of flexible approaches to providing care such as telephone consultations, postnatal clinics, and maternity support workers.
Key conclusions and implications for practice
In a context of short postnatal hospital stays, community midwives appear to be responding to women's needs and service pressures in the postnatal period. Wider implementation of specific strategies to organise and deliver support to women and babies may further improve care and outcomes.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Midwifery | ||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Sci Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0266-6138 | ||||||
Official Date: | January 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 104 | ||||||
Article Number: | 103183 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.midw.2021.103183 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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