Maternity and Newborn
More than 50,000 babies are born each year in NHS South Central and around 95% of these births happen in a hospital setting. Prior to the births, there are 850,000 antenatal/postnatal contacts with the health service.
The maternity and newborn clinical programme aims:
- To improve the quality and safety of maternity and newborn care
- To ensure equality and consistency in commissioning of maternity and newborn services, including access, care pathways, quality, clinical standards, patient safety, satisfaction and value for money
- To build capacity and capability through workforce development to ensure the local workforce meets the needs of the population
- To configure maternity services for maximum productivity
- To reduce unnecessary variation across NHS South Central.
The programme team has started work on keeping mothers and vulnerable babies together; increasing the percentage of normal births (as opposed to Caesarean sections); building a sustainable maternity workforce; improving data collection and developing leadership capability.
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