Supporting maternity services to improve safety

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

Presentations and debates from the event

• Onora O'Neill gives an overview of the inquiry's findings

Professor Onora O'Neill gives an overview of her role as Chair of the Inquiry into Safety within Maternity Services in England and explains the findings of the Inquiry,

• Improving safety in maternity services: panel debate

Cathy Warwick (RCM), Rona McCandlish (Midwifery Adviser), Anthony Falconer (RCOG) and David Foster (Deputy Chief Nursing Officer) joined our Director of Policy Anna Dixon to discuss how safety in maternity services could be improved.  

Interviews with speakers from this event

We spoke to a nubmer of our speakers about their involvement with the Safer Births programme.

• Onora O'Neill on Safer Births
• Anthony Falconer on Safer Births
• Cathy Warwick on Safer Births
• Sabaratnam Arulkumaran on Safer Births

Case studies

At this event we heard from two maternity teams about how they have implemented learnings from the Safer Births programme in their maternity services.

• Improving safety in maternity services: Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
• Improving out-of-hours maternity services: Stockport NHS Foundation Trust