WINNER

NHS Lanarkshire

From Conception to Birth - A QI Journey Towards Holistic Antenatal Care

Faced with an increasing rate of stillbirth during the covid-19 pandemic, NHS Lanarkshire’s quality improvement team launched a programme to reverse this trend by enhancing care from conception to birth.

The team developed the Holistic Antenatal Care Pathway to provide women with optimal care and targeted, evidence-based interventions. Improvements included comprehensive risk assessments, ensuring patients saw the right professional at the right time, maintaining continuity of care and enhancing patient education.

While the trust initially aimed for a 20 per cent reduction in stillbirths, the programme achieved a 43.9 per cent reduction, significantly exceeding expectations.

Read a detailed case study about this project at HSJ Solutions.

Highly commended

Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB, Cheshire and Merseyside Women’s Health & Maternity Partnership: Smoking in Pregnancy (SiP) with Cheshire & Merseyside Cancer Alliance

Finalists

Hampshire Hospitals FT: The Oak Team – implementing new services to improve community midwifery care for vulnerable women

Imperial College Healthcare Trust: Streamlining Antenatal Consultant-led Care from Booking

NHS England South West Health and Justice and North Bristol Trust: HMP Eastwood Park Maternity Services

Norfolk and Norwich University FT: Hyperemesis and Virtual Ward

Northumbria Healthcare FT: Improving patient safety in maternity through immersive simulation technology

Patient Safety Collaborative, Health Innovation Wessex: Preterm Optimisation Perinatal Team Coaching in Hampshire and Isle of Wight

 

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