Abstract
Since the dissolvement of the ‘supervisor of midwives’ role, NHS England has introduced a new midwifery role: the professional midwifery advocate (PMA) via the advocating for education and quality improvement (A-EQUIP) model. The author undertook the long course PMA study, which is a six-month module. A requirement of the module was to implement a quality improvement project within the student PMA NHS Trust. As part of a wider project under the ‘Better Births Maternity Transformation Programme’ (2016) to increase the home birth rate for the trust, the author chose to implement a quality improvement project to improve the (shared) home birth equipment available to community midwives, aiming to increase midwives’ confidence in attending home birth. Through the use of quality improvement tools and utilising a compassionate leadership model, the project aim was met: 75% of midwives reported they felt increased confidence in attending home birth with the new equipment offering.
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