THIS.Institute: How to be a very safe maternity unit: An ethnographic study (January 2019)

Summary

Maternity care continues to be associated with avoidable harm that can result in serious disability and profound anguish for women, their children, and their families, and in high costs for healthcare systems.

To understand how to make maternity care safer, we must first understand what makes a maternity unit safe.

Rather than focus on what goes wrong, this study from THIS.Institute focuses on what needs to go right by studying one high-performing maternity unit, located in Southmead Hospital in Bristol, UK.