Chair Housekeeping

Investment to bolster the maternity workforce in England will support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan’s ambition of making England the safest place in the world to give birth, while also accelerating action to reduce stillbirth by half, maternal mortality, neonatal mortality and serious brain injury by 2025.

Main Sponsor - Net Solving

An initiative in Yorkshire and the Humber is reshaping maternity care to enhance the wellbeing of women during childbirth and influence safer maternity services nationwide.

Hear from the team behind the improvement programme who will provide more insight into:

• A data-led approach: How strategic data collection has revealed insights into common issues faced by women during childbirth.
• Hidden insights: How 90% of women who require enhanced maternal care are initially healthy when they arrive at the delivery suite.
• Reducing patient risk: The process of using the data to create a risk prediction score to inform flexible care models that meet each patient's individual needs.
• The future: How the work in Yorkshire and the Humber is now informing national approaches.

This presentation is based on a research study conducted in a maternity unit to review the effectiveness of pay & reward strategies that the leadership utilise in the retention of midwifery staff.  The rationale behind this study, the research objectives as well as the literature review and methodology will be discussed.  The findings and limitations of the study will be discussed as well as the mech needed recommendations to support leaders in utilising appropriate motivational variables and formulating retention policies.

In the evolving landscape of maternity care, genomics is providing rapid and enhanced diagnosis in maternity and neonatal services. This presentation delves into the integration of genomics in midwifery practice and the need for close multidisciplinary team working to provide safe and continuous improvement for pregnant women and babies.

All Things Maternity Workforce Education & Training:

Part 1 of the presentation will provide an overview of:

• The Maternity Workforce Education & Training three phases of quality improvement that includes:
  • The development of a Safe Learning Environment Charter (SLEC) for midwifery students.
  • The framework for practice supervisor and practice assessor preparation to support midwifery students.
  • Coaching models to support pre-registration midwifery education in clinical practice.
• Improving interprofessional experiences (IPEx) in education and training.
• Student expansion update.
• The Labour Ward Co-ordinator Framework.

Part 2 of the presentation will share information on the:

• Importance of embedding the Safe Learning Environment Charter (SLEC).
• Sharing some specific elements of the Charter as case study examples.

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