Somerset Better Births Early Adopter Site Helen Williams Yeovil - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Somerset Better Births – Early Adopter Site Helen Williams Yeovil District Hospital HoM

@midwifehelen

Somerset

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Aiming for the Best in the South West

About us…..

• Foundations of a local maternity system across

Somerset

• 2 consultant led maternity services – total 4700 births
• 1 stand alone MLU, 1 alongside MLU, 1 planned MLU for

2017

• Home birth and vulnerable women’s teams
• Different models of care traditional & integrated
• Partnership working already in progress – Plus South

West Maternity Clinical Network and Obstetric Network

• Joint working on MDT perinatal mental health pathway
• A Equip Supervision Pilot site

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Aiming for the Best in the South West

Our Service Vision to secure early adopter status

• Somerset Maternity Services unimpeded by
• rganisational and professional boundaries
• Realisation of Better Birth Ambitions - specifically

improving postnatal & perinatal mental health care and digital information for improved choice and care

• Achieved through a flexible workforce

* Developing new roles/models of care * Improving continuity with a focus on the most vulnerable

• Underpinned by enhanced digital technology

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Going digital …

• The connected mother and family
• A digital information pathway choice app – supporting women to

make the right care choices

• My baby, my pathway – accessible shared records
• Effective, real-time communication with a named midwife/team
• Self care programmes with information, signposting and access

to support (baby movement, smoking, weight, wellbeing etc.)

• Our deeply rural area require a mobile, flexible workforce

that is digitally connected, with user-friendly, app based technology

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Improved postnatal and perinatal mental health care

• Improved access and continuity of care
• Develop existing vulnerable women’s teams

strengthening links across organisational and professional boundaries

• Develop a new postnatal practitioner role to support the

most vulnerable working across maternity and health visiting boundaries linked to Nurse Associate Programme

• Together with public health fully implement an MDT

perinatal mental health pathway

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Wider Better Births Progress

• Joint leaders away day to scope Better Births

action plan & encourage collaborative working

• 4 Action working groups; continuity of carer, safer

care, postnatal and perinatal mental health, choice & personalization – taking plans forward alongside EA work.

• Concepts include MY care & Baby Bus
• Dragons Dens event
• Progress Somerset LMS
• Somerset “Whose Shoes” event

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Progress to date & Next Steps…

• Working up MOU , project plan & financial phasing
• Setting up project and steering groups
• Currently recruiting project manager
• Recruit to IT, postnatal lead & practitioner roles
• Appoint IT project lead
• Project implementation plan
• Project up and running

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Somerset Maternity Network Better Births Programme Governance Structure

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Action Working Teams IT & Postnatal Care Led by Matrons & Better Births champions, Frontline Practitioners Midwives, Gps, Nurses, HV’s Postnatal Practitioners, drives changes forwards identifies successes and barriers to change -feeds into project group

CCG Maternity Forum Obstetric business meetings Clinical Governance meetings MSLC / user forums Obstetric team forums

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Better Births Project Group Heads of Midwifery, Obstetrician, Matrons, HV Manager, Trust IT leads, Business Managers, MSLC rep, NCT lead, Meets monthly, receives progress reports from action working teams provides resource support and guidance. Reports quarterly to steering group. Better Births Steering Group Directors of Nursing, Heads of Midwifery, Clinical Directors Transformation Directors, CCG leads, Receives quarterly reports, provides strategic support and feeds results into STP and NHSE pathways

STP Governance Processes

CCG / Provider Trust

Monitoring

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...and finally

• By working together, sharing our challenges, learning

and successes, we aim to ensure that all Somerset women will benefit from equitable service provision and that the Better Births vision will become a reality.

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