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Personal and Safe campaign
Personal and Safe campaign: How can you help deliver Personal and Safe maternity care for all women? In 2016, The National Maternity Review: Better Births set out a vision for maternity services across England to become safer and more personalised. Across England, maternity teams have been working exceptionally hard to implement this vision by working […]
Maternity and Perinatal and Infant Mental Health NetworkThis link opens in a new tab
The South West Maternity and Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Clinical Network (SWMCN) brings together stakeholders across the South West region to support each other in improving the overall safety and quality of maternity and perinatal & infant mental health services. At the heart of the network is the aim to improve outcomes and experience […]
On the road to transforming maternity care
Sarah-Jane Marsh, chair of the NHS England Maternity Transformation Programme Board, provides an update on the work going on to make maternity care across the country safer and giving women greater control and choice. I start with exciting news that the 2017 CQC Maternity Survey showed most women are having a positive experience of maternity […]
Clinical Network Business Plan (2019/20)This link opens in a new tab
The East Midlands Maternity Clinical Network (EMMCN) work-programme sets out our key deliverables for 2019-20 which are: To continue supporting local transformation providing independent clinical oversight and a ‘critical friend’ perspective to LMS Boards (including cross-border working and establishing Maternal Medicine Networks) To support co-production of services through Maternity Voices Partnerships To ensure there is […]
National Maternity Review
In March 2015, Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England announced a major review of maternity services as part of the NHS Five Year Forward View. Baroness Julia Cumberlege was asked to independently lead the review working with a panel of experts and representative bodies. The scope of the review was to assess current maternity […]
Midwives are shaping and transforming services
In the last of a series of blogs previewing this week’s 2018 CNO Summit, NHS England’s Head of Maternity, Children and Young People and the Director of the Maternity Transformation Programme highlight the progress made across the country to implement the vision set out in Better Births and give a taste of the session they […]
AchievementsThis link opens in a new tab
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 […]
NHS action saves 3,000 more babies’ lives
The NHS in England is saving hundreds more babies’ lives every year than a decade ago, with thousands more to be saved thanks to the Long Term Plan and ongoing action to make services safer. Professor Jaqueline Dunkley-Bent, the first-ever NHS chief midwifery officer, has praised improvements to local maternity services which saw a reduction […]
MaternityThis link opens in a new tab
Find below information about our Maternity network programme and the Local Maternity System. Who are we? We are a group of people who are involved with either providing, receiving or commissioning (i.e. buying) maternity care We are clinically led by a senior obstetrician and midwife who are supported by the network team The work of […]
Putting safety at the heart of care
Tomorrow (27 March) marks the two year anniversary of Better Births. Celia Ingham Clark, Medical Director for Clinical Effectiveness at NHS England and interim National Director of Patient Safety at NHS Improvement, says this is the perfect opportunity to reflect on what has been achieved to date and how we can continue to work together […]