The Deterioration workstream aims to improve the 'Prevention, Identification, Escalation and Response’ (PIER) to maternal and neonatal deterioration through designing and testing the following tools, for frontline maternity staff to improve safety for service users:
- The Maternity Early Warning Score (MEWS) tool
- The Newborn Early Warning Trigger and Track (NEWTT2)
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Further resources
NEWTT2 resources.
We are supporting teams to implement Each Baby Counts Learn and Support Toolkit to help develop effective pathways of escalation in preparation for implementation of the MEWS & NEWTT2 tools. Please contact us if you would like any support.
MEWS podcasts
The national patient safety team have launched three MEWS podcasts which describe how the tool has been developed, discusses the benefits of a standardised approach to reduce variation and discusses feedback from pilots of the tool and the importance of a standardised approach to implementation.