The Maternity Clinical Network was established in 2013 with the aim to improve the experience of women and their families in maternity services which had been identified as a national and a local priority by the National Clinical Director and through local consultation.
A Yorkshire and the Humber Clinical Network stakeholder event identified the following key objectives for the Clinical Network:
Since the publication of Better Births; the National Maternity Review (2017), the Maternity Clinical Network has supported the development of 3 Local Maternity Systems across Yorkshire and the Humber. It is the role of the Maternity Clinical Network to support these Local Maternity Systems to improve services and reduce variation and inequalities, working in collaboration with key stakeholders.
Maternity Work Programme Priorities 2016/17
The CN work programme priorities are developed in collaboration with the Regional Maternity Team, Local Maternity Systems, the Neonatal ODN and the Maternity & Neonatal Safety Improvement {Programme. It is based on the national requirement to support the Local Maternity Systems to:
The main areas of our work are to support improvements in:
So - What are we Doing Now?
Please follow the following links for more information on the work programme priorities:
Additional Resources
Yorkshire & the Humber Maternity Clinical Network - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform
Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal ODN - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform
National Maternity Voices – Networking Maternity Voices Partnerships in England
NHS England » Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme
Improvement Academy - Maternal and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme
Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) :: SYB ICS
Local Maternity System - Home (humbercoastandvalematernity.org.uk)
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Partnership :: Maternity care (wypartnership.co.uk)