Management and morale: challenges in contemporary maternity care

CURTIS, P., BALL, L. and KIRKHAM, M. (2006). Management and morale: challenges in contemporary maternity care. British journal of midwifery, 14 (2), 100-103.

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Abstract

This paper, the second in a series of six, brings together the findings from the Why do Midwives Leave? study and a subsequent study, Why do midwives leave: talking to managers (TT M). The TT M study was commissioned to explore managers’ perceptions of issues affecting satisfaction with practise and their perspectives on recruitment and retention. Many managers were concerned that they had limited power to effect real change in the practise environment. There was an overwhelming consensus among managers that staff shortages and inappropriate midwifery establishments underlay many of the problems that they faced. Although often committed, personally and professionally to the ideal of woman centred care, staff constraints limited the viability of this as they struggled to ensure a safe level of staffing on wards on a day to day basis.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Midwives
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Centre for Health and Social Care Research
Page Range: 100-103
Depositing User: Ann Betterton
Date Deposited: 02 Jun 2008
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2021 01:15
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/229

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