Toolkits and Data Sources
Teenage Pregnancy Guidance
This guidance provides practical suggestions on commissioing services for teenage parents and makes the case for why investment in care of teenage parents is critically important, putting emphasis on multi-agency working and adherence to minimum standards.
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Maternity dashboard performance monitoring tool
Developed by RCOG this "score card" provides a straightforward visual
means of assessing trends and perfomrnace of a matenrity unit against
criteria and objectives they set fro themselves. This can help identify
patient safety issues an advance and provides a useful quick summary of
performance for MSLCs, Boards and team discussions. It has been widely
circulated and publicsed and forms a part of the Royal Colleges' Maternity
Standards publication
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NHS Statistics and Information
Published annually, the following link connects to the most recent NHS information for England.
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Reducing the Caeserean Section Rate
This document aims tohelp local health communities an organisations improve the quality and value for money of care for promoting normal outcomes in maternity care and reducing C-section rates to a safe minimum. It is one of a series of documents produced by the Delivering Quality and Value team at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. Funded by the NHS in England the themes and tools are applicable across the UK
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Knowledge and Information
The Care Services Improvement Partnership provide both a website and searchable database of tools, news, research, policy documents etc.
Website: http://www.cypf.org.uk/
Knowledge Community: http://kc.csip.org.uk/
LSA Midwifery reports
Every year LSA Midwifery Officers must prepare and submit to the NMC a report on maternity services within their coverage area, which provide a rich source of comparative data and governance issues. These areas are aligned to SHAs in England, and reports can usually be found by logging on to your local SHA website or http://www.nmc-uk.org/aArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2438
Maternity Access and Advocacy Pack
Global health charity Medact are distributing the Maternity Access and Advocacy Pack, a picture-based resource that aims to improve access to maternity services. The pack is designed for use by community organisations and was developed in close partnership with user groups from diverse ethnic communities. Medact are distributing 20,000 copies free of charge to community groups. Boxes of 40 copies are available on request to statutory and voluntary organisations, which can be distributed in their area. Medact is also conducting train-the-trainer workshops aimed at individuals who will promote the resource amongst community groups in their area.
Further information can be found at http://www.medact.org/
Contact E-mail: maap@medact.org
Tel: 020 7324 4737.