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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2. “That's all we wanted, to be heard, listened to, just to be validated and believed”: family experiences of advocacy support in maternity and neonatal services (3 July 2026)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 July

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   • 10 July

3. State of the nation report: UK perinatal deaths of babies born in 2024 (MBRRACE-UK, June 2026)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 1 July

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4. To improve maternity services we must confront the damaging ideology that prizes “normal childbirth” over safe care (BMJ, 29 June 2026)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 1 July

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   • 1 July

5. The Lancet: Postpartum haemorrhage (12 June 2026)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 30 June

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   • 30 June

6. Top picks: 7 resources about Group B Strep

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 29 June

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   • 29 June

7. ‘Truly horrific’: the stories of five people affected by the NHS maternity scandal (The Guardian, 22 June 2026)

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   By Mark Hughes, 22 June

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   • 22 June

8. 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

9. 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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10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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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17. Illustrative case story: Neonatal jaundice (NHS Resolution)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 February

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    • 13 February

18. 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

19. 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

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

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 January

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    • 16 January

22. MBRRACE-UK: Maternal mortality 2022-2024

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    By Mark Hughes, 13 January

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    • 13 January

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

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    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 6 January

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24. 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

25. 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