What we did

• Developed a maternal mental health care pathway to support the implementation of NICE CG192.
• Reviewed current perinatal mental health service provision throughout the regions.
• Established Maternity Clinical Experts Groups.
• Established and continuing to coordinate 15 regional intra partum stillbirth review panels to share stillbirths lessons learned and highlight improvement opportunities.
• Help to reduce stillbirth rates within the regions.
• Introducing the National Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle ahead of its national launch.
• Reviewing existing enhanced midwifery services across the regions.
• Developing regional guidelines for the management of pregnant women with Hyperemesis, a diagnostic and planning pathway for abnormally invasive placenta and an integrated care pathway for women at risk of placenta accreta.
• Developing & introducing a care pathway for the management of intra-uterine transfers.

What’s the impact

• Supports commissioners to provide equitable access to a care pathway that reflects current clinical best practice.
• Facilitates the development of a consistent regional strategy for the provision of perinatal mental health services.
• Provides clinical leadership & ownership to the Clinical Network’s service improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to a regional reduction in stillbirths.
• Reduce variation in service provision & provide region-wide equitable access to enhanced midwifery services.
• Improve the clinical outcomes for these conditions.
• Improve the clinical outcomes for this condition.