Maternity Services - GP Resources
Maternity Service Summary
Maternity Safegaurding Services
Safeguarding is a key prority for our maternity teams at our hospitals and in the community. We also have two specialist teams to support women who may require added care during pregnancy and in the first stages of motherhood:
Kaleidoscope, our award winning children's centre, offer a case loading service to women with mental health diagnoses or complex social histories and young people of 18 and under
Women can also access the Liaison Antenatal Drug Service (LANDS). This is a joint clinic with CRI to support women with drug and alcohol dependencies
Safety in Maternity Services
Our vision is to provide safe, high quality services across our three hospital sites and in the community.
We have recently made a number of improvements to ensure the safety of women and babies who use our service, namely:
- Improved fetal surveillance, including establishing fetal monitoring master classes and the appointment of fetal wellbeing and surveillance champions
- Impletementing GAP protocol
- Competency testing
- Central monitoring
- Providing off-site access for fetal heart traces, so on-call consultants can view fetal heart traces from home to improve decision making
To find out more about how we monitor safety in maternity services, please view the presentation below: