Adoption
RECRUITMENT
There was a clear intention by most local stakeholders and HCPs to try to implement the model. However, some stakeholders did acknowledge numerous and tedious steps required for adopting the intervention in clinical practice due to lack of other continuity models and maternity service reconfiguration. The midwife leader was the only post externally funded and, initially, there were particular concerns on creating a new team with no additional staff (but a relocation of an already limited workforce or hospital funding for core staff recruitment) and lack of awareness of how a continuity team functions within the maternity care system of the hospital.