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Next steps for maternity services in England: personalisation, patient safety and Local Maternity Systems

April 2018


Price: £95 PLUS VAT
Format: DOWNLOADABLE PDF


Delegates at this conference discussed the next steps for maternity services in England, and the impact of new models of maternity care.


They also considered challenges for implementing plans in Safer maternity care: progress and next steps to improve the quality of investigations into term stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths, and serious brain injuries.


Key discussion points across the morning included:


  • Progress of implementing Better Births;
  • The developing role of Local Maternity Systems and aligning plans with STPs;
  • Increasing access to postnatal and perinatal mental health care;
  • Key issues for the regulation of maternity services;
  • The role of NHS Improvement’s Maternity and Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative; and
  • Progress on halving the rate of stillbirths, improving maternity safety and learning from incidents.


This pack includes

  • Dropbox video recording of the conference
  • PDF transcript of the discussion, including all speaker remarks and Q&A
  • PDFs of speakers' slide material (subject to permission)
  • PDFs of the delegate pack, including speaker biographies and attendee list
  • PDFs of delegate articles