NHS England’s National Clinical Director for the Maternity Review and Women’s Health evaluates the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle for reducing stillbirths: It has never been safer to give birth in this country, but there is more that we can do and reducing stillbirth continues to be a priority for the NHS. There are currently […]
Case study to support the NHS Patient Safety Strategy: 2022 update.
Letter from Dame Ruth May, DBE, Chief Nursing Officer, England; Dr Matthew Jolly, National Clinical Director for Maternity and Women’s Health, National Maternity Safety Champion, NHS England and Jess Reed, Deputy Chief Midwife, NHS England.
The Saving babies’ lives care bundle provides evidence-based best practice for providers and commissioners of maternity care across England to reduce perinatal mortality.
This document is the second version of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle (SBLCBv2), which has been produced to help reduce perinatal mortality across England.
We are reviewing and updating these webpages to reflect the current work of the maternity and neonatal programme. Version two of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle (SBLCBv2), has been produced to build on the achievements of version one and address the issues identified in the its evaluation. This version aims to provide detailed information […]
Saving Babies’ Lives is a care bundle designed to support providers, commissioners and professionals take action to reduce stillbirths.
Babies and toddlers with a rare and fatal genetic condition can now receive a life-saving treatment on the NHS for the first time. Sebelipase alfa (Kanuma®), an enzyme replacement therapy, will become the first treatment available on the NHS for Wolman disease, a condition which presents in babies and children under two years old. Following […]
A 19-month-old baby girl called Teddi has become the first child in the UK to receive a life-saving gene therapy treatment for the fatal disorder, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). The revolutionary gene therapy, known by its brand name Libmeldy®, has a list price of £2.8 million and was the most expensive drug in the world when […]
The NHS will be able to diagnose and potentially save the lives of thousands of severely ill children and babies — within days rather than weeks — with a world-first national genetic testing service launching today. Announcing the groundbreaking new service at the first-ever NHS genomics conference in England, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard hailed […]