The Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme is one of the National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes in place to help deliver better care for patients.
Aim
- Contribute to the national ambition, set out in Better Births, to reduce the rates of maternal and neonatal deaths, stillbirths and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth by 50% by 2025.
- Contribute to the national ambition, set out in Safer Maternity Care, to reduce the national rate of preterm births from 8% to 6%.
- Improve the safety and outcomes of maternal and neonatal care by reducing unwarranted variation and provide a high-quality healthcare experience for all women, babies, and families across maternity and neonatal care settings in England.
- Saving Babies Lives (SBLV3), safety action point-5.
Objectives
- To improve the optimisation and stabilisation of the preterm infant
- To improve the Prevention, Identification, Escalation, and Response (PIER) to maternal and neonatal deterioation.
- Objectives aligned to The 3 Year Maternity and Neonatal Plan.
Find out more about our national and local programmes of work
Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth
To reduce Avoidable Brain injuries in Childbirth by March 2027 through improving clinical practice, communication and care for women and families and result in better outcomes and experiences.
Early recognition and management of deterioration in mothers and babies
Ensure the use of the Maternity Early Warning Score (MEWS) tool and New-born Early Warning Trigger and Track (NEWTT2) tool is supported within an effective PIER pathway for managing deterioration.
Optimisation and stabilisation of the preterm infant pathway
Ensure the effective optimisation and stabilisation of the preterm infant by embedding a pathway of care consisting of nine evidence-based interventions leading to improved health outcomes.
Perinatal Culture and Leadership Programme
Improve the quality of care and experiences of women, babies and families by enabling leaders to drive change with a better understanding of the relationship between compassionate and inclusive leadership, safety improvement and safety culture.
Updates
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Previous programmes
Early supported discharge of preterm babies
We worked with the Applied Research Collaboration for the North West Coast (ARC NWC) on a project to identify the best models of care for the early supported discharge of preterm babies.
Neonatal Technology Enabled Care
We worked with Northwest Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (NWNODN) and Chiesi Limited on a 12-month project to enable more equitable, efficient, and family-integrated neonatal care in the North West, specifically through the use of Technology Enabled Care (TEC).