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PROMPT Wales & Community PROMPT Wales
National Update 2025 - 2026 Programme Year
PROMPT Wales and Community PROMPT Wales continue to strengthen multiprofessional maternity emergency training across NHS Wales throughout the 2025–2026 programme year. Strong national engagement, quality assurance activity and multiprofessional collaboration remain central to delivering consistent, evidence-based and compassionate care for women, birthing people, babies and families across Wales.
PROMPT Wales Quality Assurance
Our annual PROMPT Wales and Community PROMPT Wales Quality Assurance (QA) visits continue across NHS Wales. Across all sites, faculty teams are demonstrating outstanding commitment to high-fidelity, multiprofessional simulation training. It is particularly encouraging to see new JRCALC guidance for Welsh Ambulance Services Trust (WAST) paramedics on magnesium sulphate administration embedded within the PROMPT Wales eclampsia scenarios, strengthening fidelity to practice and reinforcing the value of community midwives and paramedics training together.
The faculty team demonstrate outstanding commitment to delivering high-fidelity training, showcasing creative equipment preparation and strong multiprofessional engagement. It is excellent to see how our Welsh Risk Pool Maternity and Neonatal Safety and Learning Programmes continue to align in supporting safer maternity and neonatal care across Wales. The preterm birth scenario clearly demonstrates the strength of collaboration between maternity and neonatal teams and actively promotes multiprofessional working across both services, strengthening a truly integrated approach to perinatal safety.
Through these visits, we continue to provide assurance to Health Boards PROMPT Wales and Community PROMPT Wales training is delivered to a high standard, remains evidence-based, and reflects national guidance and best practice
National Delivery & Programme Developments
Engagement remains strong across the 2025–2026 programme year, reflecting the sustained commitment of Health Boards and local faculty teams to high-quality multiprofessional training.
A key milestone this year has been the launch of the Community PROMPT Wales Trainer's Booklet - Edition 3 (2025). The updated resource strengthens alignment with national guidance, integrates MEWS and the All-Wales maternity transfer document, embeds RCM Re:Birth language, and enhances human factors and community-specific algorithms to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across Wales.
Alongside this, a new Facilitation Guide - WRP-Maternity-and-Neonatal-Safety-and-learning-programmes-Facilitation-Guide--2-.pdf has been developed to align the Welsh Risk Pool Maternity and Neonatal Safety & Learning Programmes. This shared resource supports faculty in delivering psychologically safe, evidence-based facilitation and promotes ongoing development across PROMPT Wales
Faculty Development & National Training Events
National PROMPT Wales Faculty Development events delivered during the 2025–2026 programme year have strengthened both the capability and capacity of our national faculty. These events have enhanced facilitation skills, human factors integration, communication, escalation and structured debriefing across NHS Wales, while also expanding and sustaining a confident, multiprofessional faculty network to support consistent delivery across all Health Boards.
The national events held in both in Cardiff and Llandrindod Wells brought together midwives, obstetricians, anaesthetists, paramedics, ambulance technicians, healthcare support workers and theatre colleagues in a vibrant multiprofessional learning environment. These events continue to build a sustainable, confident national faculty network, ensuring consistent delivery across all Health Boards.
Strengthening the Pre-Hospital Interface
PROMPT Wales continues its close collaboration with WAST and the Emergency Medical Retrieval & Transfer Service (EMRTS) Cymru, embedding PROMPT Wales principles within pre-hospital maternity emergency care.
Specialist pre-hospital maternity emergency algorithms have been co-developed to support the management of major obstetric emergencies, strengthening consistency between community, ambulance and hospital services and promoting a unified approach to the management of perinatal emergencies across Wales.
This collaborative work was showcased at the Prehospital Maternity and Neonatal 2025 Conference at ICC Wales, where Community PROMPT Wales represented the programme alongside WAST and EMRTS colleagues. The collaboration will also be highlighted at the upcoming RCM St David’s Day Conference at Swansea City Stadium, where a poster presentation under the theme “Stronger Together” will demonstrate the impact of multiprofessional partnership working in strengthening maternity emergency care across Wales.