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- Published: 26.01.11
- Updated: 28.04.11
The goal of the Safer Births programme is to enable frontline professionals working in maternity units to improve the safety of their services that they deliver to women and their babies.
We are working intensively with 12 maternity teams as part of an improvement network launched in September 2009. The aim of the network is to improve the outcomes of care during labour and birth for mothers and babies.
Since September 2009 the Safer Births initiative has provided customised support to 12 multidisciplinary maternity teams in England as part of a service improvement network. This includes:
- Bespoke management consultancy support
- Project management input
- Access to the expertise, tools and activities of the Safer Births partners
- Face-to-face networking and learning opportunities for networking via regional action learning sets
- Mentoring opportunities with other NHS Trusts/Foundation Trusts
- Access to national learning events
- Facilitated MaPSaF workshops
- Access to educational webinars
Already the maternity teams are reporting significant progress in communication, team working and leadership development.
Programme team
Working on the Safer Births project are:
- Vinice Thomas – Service Improvement Lead, Safer Births
- Anna Dixon – Director of Policy
- Anne Benson – Consultant, Leadership
- Nicola Hartley – Senior Consultant, Leadership
- Donna Lee – Senior Consultant, Leadership
- Vijaya Nath – Senior Consultant, Leadership
- Rhiannon Handslip – Network Co-ordinator
