Professional Midwifery (PMA) and Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) Training 25-2
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This sits in the upper-middle of the Education & Training band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.
NHSE seeks to procure the provision of an on-line 10-week university-based programme of training for those midwives and nurses working in maternity and neonatal services to train as Professional midwifery Advocate and Professional Nurse Advocate.
This would be for up to 150 training places at a cost of £1000 per head, It is to be taught and assessed at Masters level (level 7 equivalent).
Under the Education and Training Light Touch Regime, In 2017 the A-EQUIP (Advocating for Education and Quality Improvement) model and Professional Midwife Advocate (PMA) role that facilitates the functions of this model was launched.
The A-EQUIP model is a continuous improvement process that builds personal and professional resilience, enhances quality of care, and supports preparedness for appraisal and professional revalidation for midwives.
Any midwife who has 2 years post qualification can train to become a PMA.
It is employer led but with national oversight in terms of a National PMA Steering Group to provide a national steer to implement the A-EQUIP model and PMA role.
This training is in response to the Long-Term Plan: “A new service model for the 21st century which includes the objective to ensure that Maternity services are staffed according to safe staffing principles and evidence-based workforce tools, and to deliver the Ockenden action regarding a sustainable workforce delivering high quality safe care.” It also serves to deliver the strategic plan and objective to ensure a 1 to 20 ratio of PMAs to midwives by 2025, also under the same commitment.
We want mixed cohorts of student PMAs and student PNAs to study together to engender and support the integration of these professions to support the delivery of cohesive perinatal services.
The Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) role was launched in 2021 and in 2023 there was a focus on training more PNAs in neonatal services to support neonatal staffing and neonatal services.
As per the PMA model the PNA role also uses the A-EQUIP model.
The PNA training programme aims to improve staff wellbeing and retention, alongside improving patient care and outcomes.
Therefore, the training programme for PMAs and PNAs equips them with skills to listen and understand the challenges and demands of their fellow colleagues, to lead, support and deliver quality improvement initiatives As of June 2025, there were a total of 1592 PMAs in England and approximately 227 PMAs in each region.
There are approximately 300 PNAs working in neonatal services in England and 20-30 PNAs in neonatal services within each region.
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What the supplier must deliver
It is employer led but with national
It is employer led but with national oversight in terms of a National PMA Steering Group to provide a national steer to implement the A-EQUIP model and PMA role.
We want mixed cohorts of student PMAs
We want mixed cohorts of student PMAs and student PNAs to study together to engender and support the integration of these professions to support the delivery of cohesive perinatal services.
The Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) role was
The Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) role was launched in 2021 and in 2023 there was a focus on training more PNAs in neonatal services to support neonatal staffing and neonatal services.
Therefore, the training programme for PMAs
Therefore, the training programme for PMAs and PNAs equips them with skills to listen and understand the challenges and demands of their fellow colleagues, to lead, support and deliver quality improvement initiatives.
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