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Midwifery workforce initiative trial: update
At the end of 2022, maternity services across Melbourne were experiencing a staffing shortage not seen in Victoria since the nursing and midwifery workforce crisis of the late 1990s. In response, the Branch and Peninsula Health – with support from Safer Care Victoria and the Department of Health – collaborated to trial new midwifery workforce models, with the aim of investigating options to support and retain midwives, to bring midwives back to the bedside, and to reduce workloads. Here are the results.
