Midwize Virtual Platform

Midwize Virtual Platform

MIDWIZE is a framework to guide quality improvements in Midwife Led Care. Focusing on midwives as the hub and the primary provider of care at all levels of a country’s maternal and reproductive health care system facilitates relational, safe, cost-effective, and patient-centred care.

We focus on:

 

  • Multisectoral collaboration: we build partnerships between education, regulation, association bodies, and civil society.
  • Continues Quality Improvements: we create a sustainable system with continuous quality improvements within each sector.
  • Interdisciplinary teamwork: we utilize different clinical professional competencies, clearly defining each team member’s responsibilities and working towards shared goals.
  • Evidence-based practices: we follow evidence-based practices and international guidelines for intrapartum care, focusing on a healthy mother, a healthy child, a positive birth experience, and respectful care.

Current project 2024-2025

Midwize – Capacity Building Program for Health Care officials

The program connects leaders and decision-makers working within education, regulation, associations and clinal settings to enhance the quality of care Midwife Led Care interdisciplinary teamwork within and across their respective sectors. Join the program

MIDWIZE ambassador Felista Baweza and Ketty Ogwang and Clinical Instructor Christina Lundberg, Karolinska Institutet, showcasing how to use the birth chair and provide intrapartum support. Photo: Nkoola Joseph.

Felista Baweza, Ketty Ogwang and Christina Lundberg showcasing how to use the birth chair and provide intrapartum support. Photo: Nkoola Joseph.

Previous project 2022-2023

Midwize – Capacitating midwives to lead Midwife Led Care Quality Improvement initiatives at a maternal unit at Naguru Hospital in Kampala, Uganda

This project aimed to increase the uptake of evidence-based midwifery care practices. The selected initiatives of this project were to:

  • Support women’s choice of birth positions using "Dynamic Positions"
  • Improve the Intrapartum support
  • Improve the Perineal protection

Midwize videos

Quality Improvement videos

Learn how to use the model for Improvement and Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to improve the quality of midwife Led Care.


Skills to support Improvements:

  1. Supporting Change with Data
    Part 1     & Part 2
  2. Selecting and Developing Changes
  3. Testing a Change
  4. Implementing a change
  5. Spreading improvement
    Part 1 & Part 2
  6. The Human side of Change

Contact

Helena Lindgren
Senior lecturer and an associate professor specializing in reproductive and perinatal health, and also head of division for sexual, reproductive, and perinatal health at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Karolinska Institutet.
Johanna Blomgren
Doctoral student at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Karolinska Institutet with a special focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights, midwifery, co-creation and quality improvements.
Michael Wells
Senior Lecturer, Docent at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Michael's main research interests are in intervention and implementation research, with social and family policy outcomes.


Operated by Karolinska Institutet in Sweden
and Makerere University in Uganda