Improving Safety in Maternity Services: a toolkit for teams is organised around five key areas for improvement in maternity care on which the teams focused:
teamworking
communication
training
information and guidance ...
Publisher: Kings Fund
Published Date: 29/03/2012
This publication is aimed at all healthcare professionals. It provides information, tools, resources and practical examples taken from the NHS Improvement project sites and support needed to guide the first steps towards ...
Publisher: NHS Improvement
Published Date: 29/03/2012
These profiles give a local maternity picture for each London borough and finds that key NHS messages over the past few years are helping babies to have a healthier start in life although there is variation between areas ...
Publisher: London Health Programmes
Published Date: 14/03/2012
Information from the charity, Tommy's, about fetal growth restriction (FGR). FGR is a condition in which a baby's growth slows or stops when they are in the womb. It occurs in around five percent of all pregnancies. Unbo ...
Publisher: Tommy’s
Published Date: 13/02/2012
The Decision Planning Tool (DPT) is an instrument to aid Trusts, commissioners and health professionals plan, improve and monitor Down's syndrome screening practices by assessing the costs and effects of first and second ...
Publisher: NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (NHS FASP)
Published Date: 02/02/2012
This competence based framework was developed as part of the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists (APCP) competence project.
Publisher: Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists (APCP)
Published Date: 23/01/2012
All providers of NHS funded care should have clear processes and policies for the identification, reporting and management of incidents and serious incidents. The aim of this toolkit is to highlight the application of th ...
Publisher: UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC)
Published Date: 20/01/2012
Babies are more likely to suffer neglect and abuse and are eight times more likely to be killed than any other child. This NSPCC campaign is calling on everyone - the public, professionals and governments – to ensure tha ...
Publisher: NSPCC
Published Date: 15/12/2011
A trilogy of professionally acted and edited five-minute teaching films designed to challenge the stereotype that pregnancy, childbirth and surrounding issues are ‘women’s business’. They aim to reinforce the notion of a ...
Publisher: Swansea University
Published Date: 23/11/2011
This resource pack aims to help the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary sector in planning or running groups for expectant and new parents. It is a practical tool to improve outcomes for babies and parents through a ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 19/10/2011
This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the care of women with multiple pregnancies (twins and triplets) in the antenatal period.
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 28/09/2011
Bradford district breastfeeding rates are lower than national rates and increasing them is a key priority for action in the district’s Infant Mortality Strategy.
To address this, a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF ...
Publisher: Local Government Improvement and Development
Published Date: 08/09/2011
Designed to give health professionals a greater understanding of neonatal care and the short and long term issues that affect these babies. It features parent stories, a community liaison case study, practical tips, a di ...
Publisher: Bliss
Published Date: 23/07/2011
The NHS Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme Centre's 'Once is Enough' campaign aims to reduce the number of avoidable repeat blood spot tests and to help healthcare professionals get a good quality sample first time.
Publisher: UK Newborn Screening Programme Centre
Published Date: 01/07/2011
The Baby Friendly Inititative has re-launched its website with a number of new features inclunding "Care pathways" which aim to bring the focus of practice back to the mother's journey and with three segments for parents ...
Publisher: UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative
Published Date: 01/06/2011
The community parents project offers support to newly pregnant women and parents with children under 18 months, using volunteers from the local community. The project recruits, trains and supports volunteers to deliver k ...
Publisher: Local Government Improvement and Development
Published Date: 16/05/2011
This substantial guide offers practical information and guidance on all stages of having a baby and adjusting to new parenthood.
Publisher: Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood International
Published Date: 17/04/2011
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE guidance through commissioning and is a resource for NHS and other commissioners, managers and professionals who have a direct or indirect ro ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 31/03/2011
Designed to help trainers develop training for staff (such as midwives, health visitors and social workers) to develop their skills in raising sensitive issues with pregnant women. It is designed to support the implement ...
Publisher: National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 31/03/2011
The Audit Tool, the first of its kind for maternity services in the UK, has been developed to help those responsible for commissioning and providing services to assess the quality of care they provide to bereaved parents ...
Publisher: Sands (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)
Published Date: 08/03/2011
Phenylketonuria remains one of the most common inborn errors in the United Kingdom. It is detected on the newborn heel-prick screening sample allowing early treatment with a strict low phenylalanine diet supplemented wit ...
Publisher: Paediatrics and Child Health
Published Date: 12/02/2011
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE guidance through commissioning, and is a resource for people involved in commissioning health and social care services and public health prog ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 20/01/2011
The MHRA receives a significant number of reports of harm or near misses involving medical devices in this specialist area. This edition of One Liners describes some of these with advice on preventing further incidents i ...
Publisher: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Published Date: 12/01/2011
This is the first edition of the guideline produced by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 06/12/2010
Question: What is the advice regarding the use of low dose aspirin (75 mg) from first trimester in a woman who has had a baby below the 10th centile of birthweight in a previous term pregnancy. There is no history of pre ...
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 03/12/2010
The Commission for Rural Communities has launched a short guide, aimed at professionals involved in the commissioning of children’s services, which focusses on families with young children in rural areas and the implicat ...
Publisher: Commission for Rural Communities
Published Date: 25/11/2010
This guide is an impartial introduction to the different types of infant formula available and also covers feeding methods, recognising when your baby is hungry or full, weight gain and selecting bottles and teats. It is ...
Publisher: UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative
Published Date: 18/10/2010
NICE has launched a new quality standard on specialist neonatal care services. These services are defined as high-dependency, surgical or intensive care.
NICE quality standards are markers of excellent care. They are ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 13/10/2010
NHS Evidence - women's health have published an annual evidence update on antenatal and pregnancy care, providing a summary of the latest evidence in this area including the provision of antenatal care, patient informati ...
Publisher: NHS Evidence
Published Date: 27/09/2010
Following the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative review, a number of documents are being updated to reflect the new standards which will become part of all hospital assessments from 1 April 2011. These documents are desig ...
Publisher: UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative
Published Date: 24/09/2010
The care that women should be offered during pregnancy is outlined in NICE clinical guideline 62 ('Antenatal care'). However, pregnant women with complex social factors may need additional support to use antenatal care s ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 22/09/2010
This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of women who have or are at risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure) in pregnancy. It contains advice on the diagnosis and manag ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 25/08/2010
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published a costing report for implementation of the clinical guidance on the management of hypertension in pregnancy. Because of the breadth and com ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 25/08/2010
This guidance is designed to assist inspectors of children’s centres in their work. It supplements the guidance provided in the evaluation schedule and indicates the main activities that need to be undertaken from the ti ...
Publisher: Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skill
Published Date: 23/08/2010
Bliss has launched a new booklet, Making critical care decisions for your baby, which is for families who are being asked to consider stopping intensive care treatment for their baby.
Publisher: Bliss
Published Date: 15/08/2010
Obese mums-to-be should be encouraged to lose weight before they become pregnant, in order to reduce the risk of major complications during pregnancy, latest NICE guidance suggests.
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 28/07/2010
The paper provides advice for clinicians in obtaining consent of a woman undergoing operative vaginal delivery.
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 02/07/2010
This report is intended to assist doctors and other health professionals to support women and their families when a fetal abnormality is diagnosed and to help women to decide, within the constraints of the law, whether o ...
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 25/06/2010
This guidance is for NHS and other commissioners, managers and practitioners who have a direct or indirect role in, and responsibility for, helping women to stop smoking when pregnant and following childbirth. This inclu ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 23/06/2010
The revised Standards and Protocols have been the subject to consultation with ASW stakeholders from April to June 2009 and are a thorough revision and updating of the Antenatal Screening Wales Standards and Protocols pu ...
Publisher: NHS Wales
Published Date: 25/05/2010
The RCOG has published a Good Practice guide which it hopes will encourage the adoption and use of the Lucas classification of urgency of caesarean section. This classification uses four categories of urgency without spe ...
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 20/04/2010
A comprehensive review of the best worldwide evidence, in English, of what works to engage patients and the public in healthcare. This site aims help healthcare commissioners and providers in England to deliver higher qu ...
Publisher: Picker Institute Europe
Published Date: 09/04/2010
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) screening timeline is a resource developed to offer a visual reference to optimum times for NHS antenatal and newborn screening tests to take place. This resource has been dev ...
Publisher: UK National Screening Committee (NSC)
Published Date: 07/04/2010
A leaflet (A5, 8 pages) providing parents in Scotland with information about the neonatal transport service, transfers and listing of units in Scotland.
Publisher: Bliss
Published Date: 01/04/2010
The Bliss Scotland Parent Information Guide is free for every parent with a baby in a Scottish neonatal unit. It is distributed by most units to parents on their first or second day.
Publisher: Bliss
Published Date: 01/04/2010
Aims to help local commissioners in the public sector get better value for money from third sector organisations (TSOs). It also aims to help third sector organisations become more informed about the commissioning proces ...
Publisher: National Audit Office (NAO)
Published Date: 22/03/2010
This government document sets out how organisations and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. It includes both statutory guidance (which must be complied with ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 17/03/2010
This is a tool for commissioners of community services to use in developing a more transparent, outcome-based approach to pay for the community services element of the universal Healthy Child Programme from pregnancy to ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 12/03/2010
Enhanced Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit helping to address inequalities in life expectancy and infant mortality
Publisher:
Published Date: 09/03/2010
The advice in this NICE guideline covers: How milk banks should recruit, screen and support women who donate breast milk How milk banks should handle and process the breast milk they receive from donors.
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 26/02/2010
The Intrapartum Scorecard is a tool for monitoring and improving patient safety in maternity units.
Publisher: National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
Published Date: 10/02/2010
This document is aimed mainly at those responsible for implementing the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) maternity standards. It highlights the many chall ...
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 05/02/2010
NHS Evidence – QIPP collection launched in December 2009 and provides users with real examples of how staff are improving quality and productivity across the NHS
Publisher: NHS Evidence
Published Date: 21/12/2009
The Pregnancy Book has been revised and will be given free to expectant mothers and parents in England. The book is a trusted authority on all aspects of maternity. By providing in-depth support, useful contact informati ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 29/10/2009
This toolkit is designed to help maternity services review and assess their current practice in promoting normal birth and reducing CS rates. The toolkit also provides practical techniques to support sustainable changes ...
Publisher: NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Published Date: 28/10/2009
The NHS Plan outlines the vision of a health service designed around the patient: a new delivery system for the NHS as well as changes between health and social services, changes for NHS doctors, for nurses, midwives, th ...
Publisher:
Published Date: 11/08/2009
Informed Choice aims to assist women and health care professionals in accessing reliable, evidence-based information to support maternal choice and professionals’ clinical decision making.
Publisher: MIDIRS
Published Date: 16/09/2008
This guide makes the case for increased attention to the planning, organisation and delivery of maternity services for teenagers and gives practical suggestions on how to achieve a high-quality service that meets their n ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 15/07/2008
This guidance updates and replaces NICE inherited clinical guideline D (published in June 2001).
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 15/07/2008
This page has been developed by the Department of Health to help everyone get the best out of their appointment with their doctor or health professional.
Publisher: NHS Choices
Published Date: 28/06/2008
RCOG working party report, the audit indicators and the standards database can be downloaded
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 01/06/2008
NICE guidance which aims to improve the nutrition of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and children in low income households.
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 27/03/2008
This NICE guidance covers the care and treatment of pregnant women with diabetes in the NHS in England and Wales. It also covers the care of their newborn babies.
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 27/03/2008
Guidance from NICE regarding the routine care that all healthy women can expect to receive during their pregnancy.
Publisher:
Published Date: 27/03/2008
The Reaching Out Project aims to improve access to maternity services for highly marginalised Black and minority ethnic women, including refugees, asylum seekers, women with little or no English and women with insecure i ...
Publisher: Medact
Published Date: 16/03/2008
AIMS... at the forefront of the childbirth movement for more than forty years.
* Working towards normal birth
* Providing independent support and information about maternity choices
* Raising awareness o ...
Publisher: Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS)
Published Date: 16/03/2008
This guidance is for health professionals, commissioners and managers, pharmacists, those providing pre-school childcare and other relevant public, community, voluntary and private sector organisations. It relates to pr ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 15/03/2008
The NSPCC on behalf on Piat (Promoting inter-agency training) have produced some new tools to support the process of evaluating inter-agency training and of understanding the core dimensions of effective inter-agency rel ...
Publisher: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Published Date: 11/03/2008
The purpose of this guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, is to urge all maternity units to consider the use of the Maternity Dashboard to plan and improve their maternity services.
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 29/02/2008
NICE guidance on smoking cessation services in primary care, pharmacies, local authorities and workplaces, particularly for manual working groups, pregnant women and hard to reach communities.
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 27/02/2008
This paper aims to encourage people to think about the information they use whenever they make decisions. It has examples, drawn from many different sources, of how information has been used in improving public services. ...
Publisher: Audit Commission
Published Date: 21/02/2008
This guide is intended to be a short, practical resource for anyone in any health system who is responsible for using indicators to monitor and improve performance, systems or outcomes.
Publisher: Association of Public Health Authorities (APHO)
Published Date: 14/02/2008
Consensus statement from the Maternity Care Working Party - our shared views about the need to recognise, facilitate and audit normal birth
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 13/12/2007
From April 2008 local authorities will assume overall responsibility for the quality of young people's information, advice and guidance (IAG). These standards will help local authorities to secure high-quality IAG provis ...
Publisher: Careers Education and IAG support programme (CIAG)
Published Date: 01/11/2007
The joint document, Safer Childbirth: Minimum Standards for the Organisation and Delivery of Care in Labour, provides clear and concise information about the roles and essential minimum staffing levels required to suppor ...
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 10/10/2007
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health have issued this guidance providing clear and consistent advice to doctors and midwives on ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 28/09/2007
To complement guidance sent last year to local areas on accelerating reductions in under-18 conceptions, the Department for Children, Schools and Families has launched a refreshed strategy designed to improve outcomes fo ...
Publisher: Every Child Matters (ECM)
Published Date: 17/08/2007
This new midwifery guide highlights effective practice on issues of confidentiality and sharing information about individual teenage mothers with other agencies. The aim is to improve outcomes for pregnant teenagers and ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 20/07/2007
Ever wanted to know...
* How many women gave birth by caesarean section?
* How many women had an epidural?
* How many women had a 'normal' delivery?
The annual maternity publication can answer all of ...
Publisher: The Health and Social Care Information Centre (IC)
Published Date: 28/06/2007
The CNST Maternity Standards apply to members (including PCTs) providing labour ward services. They assess the way risk management activities are organised in these important services, focussing on areas such as communic ...
Publisher: NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA)
Published Date: 18/05/2007
The Breastfeeding Manifesto was produced in 2006 in consultation with over twenty UK organisations working to improve awareness of the health benefits of breastfeeding and its role in reducing health inequalities. The Br ...
Publisher: Breastfeeding Manifesto
Published Date: 16/05/2007
A self-assessment tool for commissioners, published in tandem with Maternity Matters, to help PCTs and their partners ensure local maternity services meet population requirements and address health inequalities
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 24/04/2007
Includes: Guidance for health professionalsGuidance for new and expectant mothersLegislation affecting new and expectant mothers at work.Sources of further information and guidance
Publisher: Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Published Date: 24/04/2007
This NICE guidance presents the recommendations on 'One to one interventions to reduce the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, and to reduce the rate of under 18 conceptions, especially ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 24/04/2007
This guideline provides evidence-based information to inform the care of women undergoing either planned vaginal birth after previous caesarean section (VBAC) or elective repeat caesarean section (ERCS).
Publisher: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
Published Date: 11/04/2007
This toolkit is designed to help maternity services review and assess their current practice in promoting normal birth and reducing CS rates. The toolkit also provides practical techniques to support sustainable changes ...
Publisher: NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Published Date: 26/03/2007
This NICE guidance presents the recommendations on one to one interventions to reduce the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and to reduce the rate of under 18 conceptions, especially among v ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 14/03/2007
This guidance covers the recognition of mental health problems during pregnancy and in the first year after giving birth, and care and treatment options, including drugs and psychological treatments. It also covers how f ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 14/03/2007
The NICE clinical guideline on postnatal care covers the core care that every healthy woman and healthy baby should be offered during the first 6-8 weeks after the birth. Although for most women and babies the postnatal ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 27/07/2006
The guidance sets out what we know about effective delivery of local teenage pregnancy strategies, based on in-depth reviews carried out in a number of areas with differing levels of success in reducing under-18 concepti ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 20/04/2006
These guidelines inform healthcare managers, commissioners, practitioners and others on ways in which local maternity services liaison committees can work effectively and contribute to improving maternity services in lin ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 13/02/2006
This booklet contains the rules and standards for midwifery and statutory
supervision of midwives. It also provides guidance on the interpretation of
those rules and standards. This replaces the previous Midwives rules ...
Publisher: Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC)
Published Date: 01/08/2004
The NICE caesarean section clinical guideline covers: the information women can expect to receive from their doctor or midwife about caesarean section the most common reasons why they might need to have a caesarean secti ...
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Published Date: 15/04/2004
This practice guidance is to help staff address and share the why and the what of patient and public involvement in the context of Section 11 of the Health and Social Care Act - why it is important and what it entails.
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 28/02/2003