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Content ArticleMind the Gap 2021 explores what training looked like for the maternity services workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how this relates to the factors that contribute to the avoidable harm and deaths of mothers, birthing people, and their babies. It is an ongoing piece of research by the charity Baby Lifeline. The report directly surveys recommendations from reports investigating avoidable harm and takes into account wider events affecting maternity care. Training is a central recommendation for improving safety in maternity services. Gaps which already existed in training due to chronic underfunding and staff shortages have become worse, and this report will give recommendations to improve training nationally and locally at a critical time for maternity.
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Content ArticleIn 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.
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Content ArticleThis report from NHS England on the National Maternity Review sets out a vision for the planning, design and safe delivery of maternity services; how women, babies and families will be able to get the type of care they want; and how staff will be supported to deliver such care.
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Content ArticleThis is the sixth annual report produced for the Maternal, Newborn and Infant Clinical Outcome Review Programme, run by the MBRRACE-UK collaboration. The authors analysed 2.3 million pregnancies from 2015-2017 in the UK and Ireland. During that three-year period, 209 women in the UK and Ireland died during their pregnancies or up to six weeks afterwards from pregnancy-related causes. This is equivalent to just over 9 women per 100,000. The leading cause of maternal deaths in the UK is still cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks, heart failure and heart rhythm problems, and there has been no reduction in maternal deaths from heart-related causes for more than 15 years. The full report can be found through the link below, or you can read the lay summary here.
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Content ArticleThe risks of accidentally dropping a baby are well known, particularly when a parent falls asleep while holding a baby; or when a parent or healthcare worker holding the baby slips, trips or falls. However, despite healthcare staff routinely using a range of approaches to make handling of babies as safe as possible, and advising new parents on how to safely feed, carry and change their babies, on rare occasions babies are accidentally dropped. This safety alert was issued after a consultant neonatologist raised concerns about an increase in the number of accidentally dropped babies in his organisation. A search of the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) for a recent 12 month period identified; 182 babies who had been accidentally dropped in obstetric/ midwifery inpatient settings (eight with significant reported injuries, including fractured skulls and/or intracranial bleeds), 66 babies accidentally dropped on paediatric wards, and two in mother and baby units in mental health trusts. Almost all of these 250 incidents occurred when the baby was in the care of parents or visiting family members.
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Each Baby Counts (RCOG, 2019)
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Each Baby Counts is the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (ROCG's) national quality improvement programme to reduce the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled as a result of incidents occurring during term labour.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis document is the second version of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle, which has been produced by NHS England to help reduce perinatal mortality across England. The second version of the care bundle brings together five elements of care that are widely recognised as evidence-based and/or best practice: reducing smoking in pregnancy, risk assessment, prevention and surveillance of pregnancies at risk of fetal growth restriction; raising awareness of reduced fetal movement; effective fetal monitoring during labour; reducing preterm birth.
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Content ArticleA guide produced by NHS Improvement to support maternity safety champions. Maternity safety champions play a central role in ensuring that mothers and babies continue to receive the safest care possible by adopting best practice. This guide outlines the role and responsibilities of maternity safety champions and suggests activities to promote best practice.
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Content ArticleFourth MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report providing information on UK perinatal deaths for births from January to December 2016. The report focuses on the surveillance of all late fetal losses (22+0 to 23+6 weeks gestational age), stillbirths and neonatal deaths, with data presented by country, by geographical area, by health care provider and by Local Authority.
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Content ArticleThe London Maternity Strategic Clinical Network (SCN), in collaboration with Nutshell Communications and hospitals in the London region, has delivered a number of "Whose Shoes?" user experience workshops for healthcare professionals, commissioners and users, to explore local concerns, challenges and opportunities, focusing on service improvement. This document provides 11 case studies which illustrate some of the outcomes from the trusts who have to date taken part in the workshops.
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WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (December 2015)
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Of the more than 130 million births occurring each year, an estimated 303 000 result in the mother’s death, 2.6 million in stillbirth, and another 2.7 million in a newborn death within the first 28 days of birth. The majority of these deaths occur in low-resource settings and most could be prevented. The World Health Organization (WHO) has produced a safe birth checklist. -
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Safety, experience, or both?
Claire Cox posted an article in Maternity
Is safety and a good experience two separate issues? This blog by Florence Wilcock, consultant obstetrician, discusses this issue.- Posted
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Content ArticleBlack women in the UK are five times more likely to die during pregnancy and after childbirth compared to white women (MBRRACE, 2019). A petition recently called for more research into why this is happening and recommendations to improve healthcare for Black Women as urgent action is needed to address this disparity. The petition exceeded the threshold of 100,000 signatures required in order to be considered for debate in Parliament. The Government issued this written response on 25 June 2020.
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Content ArticleMore than 1 in 10 women will experience postnatal depression within the first year after giving birth. With a recent study showing that postnatal depression is 13% higher among black and ethnic minority women than it is among white women, it raises significant questions around whether these women are receiving the right treatment and support.
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RCOG: National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Maternity
The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) is a large scale audit of the NHS maternity services across England, Scotland and Wales undertaken by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). Using timely high-quality data, the audit aims to evaluate a range of care processes and outcomes, in order to identify good practice and areas for improvement in the care of women and babies looked after by NHS maternity services.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn the past 10 years, rates of Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASI) have increased in England. Experiences in some maternity units have shown that some of the underlying problems related to this rise in OASI include:Inconsistencies in approaches to preventing OASIsInconsistencies in training and skillsLack of awareness of risk factors and long-term impact of OASIsVariation in practice between health professionalsIn light of this, the OASI care bundle team have developed and piloted an intervention package, including a care bundle and guide, a multidisciplinary skills development module for health care professionals, and campaign materials (such as leaflets and newsletters designed to raise awareness).This scaling up programme is a collaboration between the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), with funding provided by The Health Foundation.
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Content ArticleThe Children’s Commissioner’s Office is concerned about the limitations in support offered to new families under lockdown, the reductions in contact with health visitors, and the inability to maintain birth registers. In this briefing paper, they highlight the need for policymakers to put families with young children, and especially those with newborns, at the heart of coronavirus planning. It shows that the risks to babies and young children can be reduced if the government and services think creatively to find ways to bring vital support to new parents, and takes proactive steps to ensure that different agencies routinely share data on these children – now more important than ever.
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Content ArticleRates of induction of labour have been increasing globally to up to one in three pregnancies in many high-income countries. Although guidelines around induction, and strength of the underlying evidence, vary considerably by indication, shared decision-making is increasingly recognised as key. The aim of this study, published in Women and birth, was to identify women’s mode of birth preferences and experiences of shared decision-making for induction of labour.
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Content ArticleA patient shares her story of how catastrophic complications from a hysterectomy has changed her life forever.
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Content ArticleAn interview with Jennifer Block, author of Everything Below The Waist: Why Health Care Needs A Feminist Revolution. This interview was published on the Hysterical Women website.
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Content ArticleThese controversial implants are used by medical professionals to treat stress incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, both of which can occur after childbirth. But there’s a darker side to the mesh story, with many women left in excruciating pain, suffering long-term health problems as a result of being fitted with them. This article in Woman & Home explores the issues around vaginal mesh implants and speaks to women and campaigners.
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Content ArticleThis is an interview with Gabrielle Jackson, author of Pain and Prejudice: A call to arms for women and their bodies, published by the Hysterical Women website. Jackson talks about her diagnosis of endometriosis, the lack of advanced medical knowledge around women's medical issues and a need for access to better treatments.
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Mesh implantation: Inside Out (East)
Claire Cox posted an article in Patient stories
BBC reporter, Julie Reinger, talks to women who have had mesh implants after childbirth ahead of an independent report into the procedure.- Posted
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