Safer Births: Supporting maternity services to improve safety

The Safer Births programme aims to enable front-line professionals working in maternity units to improve the safety of the services they deliver to women and their babies.

About Safer Births

We are working with maternity teams across the country to improve the outcomes of care during labour and birth for mothers and babies.

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Our work

From bespoke management consultancy to mentoring opportunities with other NHS trusts, we provide customised support to 12 multidisciplinary maternity teams.

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Our partners

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Maternity care in general practice

The King's Fund commissioned a discussion paper on the role of GPs in maternity care to inform the Inquiry into the Quality of General Practice.

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More commentary and analysis

Video highlights

Cathy Warwick discusses the challenges facing maternity teams

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Case studies

Maternity staff stories

Tania Browes on Safer Births

Tania Browes, Midwifery Manager for Community Services, Ipswich Hospital, talks about the lessons she and her team have learnt from the Safer Births programme.

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Safer Births webinars

Safer Births

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National learning event

Our national event explored how maternity teams can embed and sustain improvement in safer births.

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Publications

Recommended reading

See our maternity services reading list for a compilation of resources held by our library.

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