Safe delivery: reducing risk in maternity services

Recent investigations show that there is still much to be done to improve safety for women using maternity services in England. The Healthcare Commission and the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) are working together to review the current status of maternity provision and provide tools and data to support service development and minimise risks and adverse events.

As part of this work the Commission and NPSA jointly hosted a free conference on 26 June 2007 in central London to look at how to reduce risk in maternity services. The Conference brought together policy makers, leading representatives from key organisations and health professionals from the field of maternity care. The focus of the day was the challenge of how to ensure safe, confident and effective maternity care in a time of immense change and financial pressure on maternity units and included practical examples of new ways of improving the quality of maternity care.

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Chair's welcome
Miss Heather Mellows, Medical Advisor to the Department of Health
(1.45 min)
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Ensuring safe maternity care
Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, Chairman, Healthcare Commission
(16.40 min)
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Making maternity care safer
Lord Naren Patel, Chairman, The National Patient Safety Agency
(18.19 min)
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Panel question and answer session 1
(13.04 min)
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Safe delivery - reducing risk in maternity services in a time of change. Obstetric presence and team work
Professor Allan Templeton, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
(20.30 min)
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Midwives and Midwifery - their place in safe delivery
Dame Karlene Davis, General Secretary, Royal College of Midwives
(16.25 min)
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Panel questions and answers session 2
(11.00 min)
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Maternal safety - a national and international perspective
Dr Gwyneth Lewis, National Clinical Leader for Mental Health and Maternity Services
(21.13 min)
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Implementing intra-partum safety practices
Professor James Walker, Consultant Obstetrician, Leeds, and Clinical Speciality Adviser to the National Patient Safety Agency
(17.10 min)
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Panel question and answers session 3
(2.28 min)
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Supervision - threat or support?
Barbara Kuypers, Midwifery Advisor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (replacing Christina McKenzie - Midwifery Lead, Nursing and Midwifery Council)
(17.58 min)
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The King's Fund inquiry - independent enquiry into the safety of maternity services in England
Anna Dixon, Deputy Director of Policy, The King's Fund
(12.54 min)
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Sharing our learning - practice examples

Mayday Healthcare NHS
Women and children first
Rosol Hamid, Lead in Obstetrics and Risk Management, Debby Gould, Head of Midwifery, Mayday University Hospital, London
(9.41 min)
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The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Stop, look, listen - women at risk!
Christing O'Loughlin, Senior Midwife Clinical Governance / supervisor of midwives, Jackie Hogan, Nurse Consultant Critical Care
(16.24 min)
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Leeds University Hospital Trust
Working together sharing responsibility
Professor James Walker and Karen Warner
(19.42 min)
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Improving the care of babies: the contribution of Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)
Dominique Acolet, Clinical Director, Perinatal Epidemiology (CEMACH)
(17.29 min)
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines
Andrea Sutcliffe, Deputy Chief Executive, NICE
(18.40 min)
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How safe is it outside hospital? The birthplace in England research programme (Birthplace)
Peter Brocklehurst, National Perinatal Epidermiology Unit
(21.39 min)
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Managing upwards - making a change in your unit
Rineke Schram, Consultant Obstetrician and Medical Director, Royal Blackburn Hospital
(21.57 min)
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Round up and close
Miss healther Mellows
(0.43)
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