Resources on the safety of maternity services

Publications

King's Fund

• The Safety of Maternity Services in England

Department of Health

• Maternity matters: choice, access and continuity of care in a safe service

• Making it better for mother and baby: clinical case for change

• Improving the quality and outcomes for maternity service users through effective commissioning: a self-assessment tool for commissioners

• NSF for children, young people and maternity services: maternity services exemplar
• Children's health and maternity services e-bulletin
• Children's health, our future: a review of progress against the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services 2004 (see especially Chapter 1, 'Maternity', pp. 10 - 19)
• 'Intrapartum-related deaths: 500 missed opportunities', chapter 6 of On the state of the public health: annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2006
• National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services: maternity services (with Department for Education and Skills)

Healthcare Commission

• Introduction to the review of maternity services, February 2007: information for trusts
• Investigation into 10 maternal deaths at, or following delivery at, Northwick Park Hospital, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, between April 2002 and April 2005
• Review of Maternity Services 2007

NHS Information Centre

• NHS maternity statistics, England: 2005-06

National Childbirth Trust, Royal College of Midwives and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

• Modernising maternity care: a commissioning toolkit for England

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Anaesthetists, and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

• Safer Childbirth: Minimum standards for the organisation and delivery of care in labour

National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit

• Recorded delivery: a national survey of women's experience of maternity care 2006

Reform

• Maternity services in the NHS

Resources

Reading list

• King's Fund reading list on maternity services (152 kb)

National Library for Health

• Reconfiguring maternity services (Health Management Specialist Library hot topic)

• Women's Health Specialist Library

Links

• Healthcare Commission: maternity services programme

• Royal College of Midwives

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

• AIMS (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services)

• NCT (National Childbirth Trust)
• The Information Centre: Maternity (statistics
• Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)
• Saferhealthcare: maternity services
• Maternity Service Liaison Committee