Maternity

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1. Top picks: Key resources for maternity safety

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   By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 19 July, 2025

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   • 19 July, 2025

2. NHS Resolution: Learning from claims related to early onset Group B Streptococcal disease in neonates

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 26 May

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   • 26 May

3. New national guidance: Transfer of critically ill maternity patients (22 April 2026)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 15 May

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   • 15 May

4. Event recordings: MNSI programme strategy update and thematic priorities (21 April 2026)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 15 May

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   • 15 May

5. RCOG Consultation - Good Practice Paper No. 12: Implementing safe and effective handover in maternity and gynaecology

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 14 May

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   • 14 May

6. What Black Maternal Health Awareness Week demands of all of us (20 April 2026)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 21 April

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   • 21 April

7. Improving pregnancy outcomes: 5 key study findings (NIHR, 9 March 2026)

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   By Mark Hughes, 19 March

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   • 19 March

8. Miscarriage in the UK: Still a ‘dismissive’ and ‘dehumanising’ experience (9 March 2026)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 9 March

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   • 9 March

9. BBC Radio 2: Maternity care (26 February 2026)

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   • Organisational Performance

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 February

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   • 27 February

10. Systematic review of patient safety incident reporting practices in maternity care (5 October 2025)

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    By Mark Hughes, 19 February

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    • 19 February

11. Illustrative case story: Neonatal jaundice (NHS Resolution)

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    • Baby

    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 February

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    • 13 February

12. Pregnancy and childbirth: trusted information collection (Patient Information Forum)

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    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 20 January

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    • 20 January

13. Strategies to mitigate institutional maternal mortality: Lessons from a quality improvement initiative in Brazilian maternity hospitals (25 December 2025))

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 January

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    • 19 January

14. From expectation to reality: Parents’ experiences of pregnancy, birth, and life with a newborn (NCT, 19 January 2025)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 January

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    • 19 January

15. Improving postnatal care: a toolkit for integrated care boards, partners and providers (NHSE, 6 January 2026)

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    • Midwife

    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 January

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    • 16 January

16. MBRRACE-UK: Maternal mortality 2022-2024

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    By Mark Hughes, 13 January

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    • 13 January

17. Protecting mothers, babies and traditions: Delivering safer care through midwifery

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    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 6 January

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18. Time for action: The Black Maternal Mental Health Report

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    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 26 November, 2025

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    • 26 November, 2025

19. Preventable maternal deaths in England and Wales, 2013–2023: a systematic case series of coroners’ reports (4 November 2025)

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    By Mark Hughes, 19 November, 2025

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    • 19 November, 2025

20. Maternal paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy and risk of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring: umbrella review of systematic reviews (10 November 2025)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 November, 2025

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    • 10 November, 2025

21. Exploring nurses’ perspectives on patient safety culture in neonatal intensive care units: a phenomenological study (15 October 2025)

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    By Mark Hughes, 3 November, 2025

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    • 3 November, 2025

22. Healthcare Improvement Scotland: Edinburgh Royal Infirmary – safe delivery of care inspection October 2025

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    By Mark Hughes, 3 November, 2025

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    • 3 November, 2025

23. Here’s the direct effect of our NHS blame culture: babies die. Tragedy after tragedy, it can’t go on - Jeremy Hunt (The Guardian, 9th October 2025)

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    By Mark Hughes, 10 October, 2025

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    • 10 October, 2025

24. Not just an option: Interpreting as an essential component of safe maternity and neonatal care (Sands and Tommy's Maternity Consortium)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 25 September, 2025

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    • 25 September, 2025

25. The Motherhood Group: Black maternal mental health report UK (23 September 2025)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 23 September, 2025

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    • 23 September, 2025