Maternity

Next steps on the Five Year Forward View: New parents in London to benefit from online Redbook

From April, parents of the 136,000 babies born across London each year will be able to record and manage information about their child’s health and development online. The NHS in England has today announced a digital version of the Redbook will be rolled out across London, answering calls from parents who often lose information when […]

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Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View: NHS acts to cut inappropriate out of area placements for children and young people in mental health crisis

NHS England will today announce the next steps in the drive to ensure children and young people don’t have to travel far from home for mental health care, funding between 150-180 new beds. The increase will be focused on those who are most unwell, be dependent on need and placed in under-served parts of the […]

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Supporting safer care for full-term babies

A resource alert has been issued to support NHS providers to reduce harm leading to avoidable admissions of full-term babies. Resources to support safer care for full-term babies We’ve produced a resource to support staff in preventing avoidable admissions of full-term babies. It is a priority for the NHS to reduce avoidable harm that can lead to […]

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NHS England sets out steps to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mums and help those attending A&E in crisis

NHS England today sets out plans to provide more support for pregnant women and new mums suffering mental illness as well as to improve care for the many people with mental health problems attending A&E in crisis. Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England will tell the Mind conference on Tuesday that £40m is to […]

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NHS England announces sites to test maternity services of the future

Chair of the Maternity Transformation Programme and Chief Executive of Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Sarah-Jane Marsh has today announced seven local areas who will be taking forward the recommendations set out in Better Births. The Early Adopter sites, which have been carefully chosen by a selected panel, will test a range of […]

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