Providing quality care for women: A framework for maternity service standards (RCOG, 2016)

Summary

In 2015, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists established the Safer Women’s Health Care working party to identify the workforce and service standards needed to deliver safe, high-quality maternity and gynaecological care. This report is the output of the multi-disciplinary maternity standards work stream. It sets out a framework for commissioners and service providers of high-level maternity service standards that aim to improve outcomes and reduce variation in maternity care. There is also an accompanying framework for gynaecology services.