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Birthrate Plus-a framework for workforce planning and decision-making for midwifery services
JEAN A. BALL & MARIE WASHBROOK
Hale, Books for Midwives Press, 1996
Hale, Cheshire
176 pp., L12.95
In the present NHS environment, budget management plays an important part in the organization of any maternity unit and indeed any midwifery service provision. As all man agers know, staffing costs form the greatest single factor in this budget management. This very useful book will provide an excellent guide for maternity unit managers in calculating numbers of staff required to run a maternity unit safely, but economically.
The book is arranged into seven units, covering aspects of the Birthrate Plus system. The first unit explores the background of planning workforce and its difficulties and describes the lessons which have been learned from previous projects carried out by the authors and others. Because there are few studies of workforce planning in midwifery, the authors...