Penetration
When assessing the integration of the POPPIE model within the maternity services, many HCPs working on the new team encountered issues at the ‘boundaries’ between themselves and established services (especially labour ward and community teams) and potentially due to lack of knowledge about how the team worked (e.g. philosophy of care, visits, inductions of labour, on-calls). A couple of women also perceived a disconnection between their midwives and core hospital staff; they described care as being disjointed and observed unpleasant behaviours by core hospital staff towards POPPIE midwives.