Managing Birth Services
5 Talks
Birth services are becoming progressively busy, with an increasingly complex clientele. This boxset discusses improvements to maternity services to support better experience for service-users and staff, and efficiency in care.
The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA)
2018 | 26 mins | Managing Birth Services
Dr Tina Harris, Senior Clinical Lead Midwifery, NMPA introduces the National Maternity and Perinatal audit commissioned by Health Quality Improvement Partnership. She discusses the role of the audit to help improve services. She presents some of the information gained from a survey of organisation of maternity services and the key findings from the clinical report of 2017. (Note this data is now updated for 2019). Tina explains some of the data available and how services can use the information to implement policy.
Dr Tina Harris, Senior Clinical Lead Midwifery, NMPA
Evaluating the effectiveness of a training intervention in neonatal resuscitation: establishing grounds for further rollout
2017 | 36 mins | Managing Birth Services
The neonatal mortality rate in Zambia is six times higher than in the UK. A scoping report found a lack of skill and knowledge throughout the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in providing neonatal resuscitation. In this talk, Faith Kayembe, Senior Midwifery Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University discusses the award-winning project to implement training in neonatal resuscitation in hospitals across Zambia. She explores the challenges to implementing training, the benefits and outcomes of the project and the importance of returning to basic skills. She concludes by highlighting the ongoing cascade training facilitated through the original project and the importance of local leadership.
Faith Kayembe, Senior Midwifery Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University
Adventure in obstetric triage: an improvement story
2016 | 22 mins | Managing Birth Services
In this talk, Caterina Raniolo, Maternity Project Manager and Midwife, Newham University Hospital, discusses a quality improvement programme for experience and flow through maternity triage. Triage departments are often synonymous with long waiting times, poor experiences and poorly supported and overwhelmed staff. Caterina discusses solutions to ineffective triage systems, beginning by presenting a woman’s journey through triage. She goes onto discuss the implementation of tools and training to improve efficiency and flow.
Caterina Raniolo, Maternity Project Manager, Barts Health NHS Trust
24 hour labour line: Rethinking telephone support for women during early labour
2016 | 23 mins | Managing Birth Services
There is an evidenced relationship between admission in latent labour and intervention. NICE guidance encourages labouring women to stay at home during this phase of labour. However, the support during latent labour is often limited. In this talk, Marie Nott, Midwifery Lecturer, University of Southampton and Olivia Lowe, Midwife, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, discuss their 24/7 telephone line to provide support in all phases of labour. This service, in collaboration with the emergency services, aims to provide telephone triaging and education, whilst facilitating community home assessments in early labour. They discuss the initial service evaluation, with positive responses from service users and midwives, improving experiences and communication.
Marie Nott, Midwifery Lecturer, University of Southampton
Olivia Lowe, Midwife, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Transforming Maternity Services Together (TST)
2017 | 21 mins | Managing Birth Services
Change across a large, multi-site, health trust can be difficult. Cathy Falvey-Browne, Consultant Midwife, and Caterina Raniolo, Maternity Project Manager from Barts Health NHS Trust explains the complex nature of the trust area and the rationale for change. They share the vision for change formulated through a ‘bottom-up’ approach via regular consultation with local women and families and staff, involving them throughout. The aim was to increase choice for all, especially those complex need. They highlight how the project aligns to Better births transformation plans, sharing progress and the experiences of women and midwives.
Cathy Falvey-Browne, Consultant Midwife, Barts Health NHS Trust
Caterina Raniolo, Maternity Project Manager, Barts Health NHS Trust
