Joint Annual Performance Review 2007 - Ministry of Health

Recommendations: Area 2- Pre-service
Education and In-service Training
• Increase capacities of teachers and ensure
career pathways and adequate preparation for
future teachers. As an interim measure, there is
need to immediately address the clinical skills of
midwife teachers and increase the number of
part-time clinical instructors used in RTCs,
drawing form competent midwives in current
practice at RHs.
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Recommendations: Area 3- Recruitment,
retention, deployment (1)
• Current plans and agreements for upgrading midwives
onto high pay-band should be implemented as quickly as
possible
• Consider lesson learnt from the education sector for
creating of special handship postings, which carry with
them incentive packages
• Incentives for teachers to follow-up students in clinical
areas should include travel allowances
• An incentive package, which could be a mixture of small
one-off payments and for support for updating training,
could be considered to encourage midwives working in
non-midwifery areas agree to being-deployed to a
midwife post
• Future recruitment of midwives should follow national
guidelines and priorities areas of need
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