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Dear colleague,
Welcome to the Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeo SIP) winter newsletter, which highlights developments within MatNeo SIP across the North West Coast and offers useful resources and events.
Since our last newsletter the Innovation Agency has been renamed Health Innovation North West Coast, but we will continue to work in the same way and this won’t change the way we support local teams.
Please encourage colleagues to subscribe to this newsletter via this link; to our FutureNHS workspace and to check out our page on the Health Innovation North West Coast website.
I would like to thank all the contributors for sharing their learning for this and previous newsletters and those who have contributed to our SIGs and face-to-face learning event this year. We consistently get good feedback and attendance at all our events and teams really appreciate networking and sharing local learning and we couldn’t do this without the support of local clinicians across the network.
Thank you for being part of our MatNeo community.
Best wishes,
Amanda Andrews
Senior Programme Manager
National Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement update
Please find the MatNeo SIP driver diagram for 2023/24 here.
The national MatNeo SIP team have sent a request out to update Badgernet permissions. The letter has been sent to all digital leads/DOMS/HOMS. If you are happy with the changes no action needs to be taken, otherwise follow the instructions within the letter.
As the planning work for digitalisation of the national MEWS/NEWTT2 tool progresses we have contacted all trusts’ digital teams/midwives to provide further information on current systems used to record maternal and neonatal observations. This will help gain an understanding of the current landscape to enable robust planning, testing and subsequent implementation of the digital versions. Please encourage your digital teams to return the relevant information and contact Amanda with any further questions.
See how the NEWTT2 and MEWS tools align to the Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services (NHSE 2023) in Theme 4, Objective 10: Standards to ensure best practice.
Saving babies’ lives version 3 Optimisation care bundle is now included within element 5. Providers will be required to demonstrate implementation of at least 50 per cent of interventions within each element. Let us know if you require any support with your data.
Optimisation of the preterm infant
We have recently held two events for optimisation of the preterm infant.
The virtual optimisation SIG in September had a focus on saving babies’ lives vs 3 (SBLvs3) and the two new optimisation measures. The recording can be found here and presentations here.
Dr Nigel Simpson, author of Element 5 in SBLvs3 and Leeds preterm birth team presented and discussed some of the underpinning evidence for element 5 and the role of the specialist preterm birth midwife service in Leeds. Check out the recording to hear more (recording at 2.54). Catherine Nash presented some changes to the optimisation tool and the results from the North West ventilation survey (recording at 44.39). We heard about local experiences of implementing Volume-target ventilation from Dr Delyth Webb from an LNU perspective (recording 1:26:15) and Dr Amitava Sur from an NICU perspective (recording 1:04:53). We also heard about the important role of caffeine with the preterm infant from Dr Archana Misra and the neonatal team at Bolton and how they made local improvements (recording 1:39:55). All the presentations were extremely interesting and generated lots of discussion around local improvement.
In November we collaborated with Liverpool Women’s Hospital, NWNODN and HiNM to have an optimisation promotion week to support teams with implementation and raise awareness of the care bundle. We included a social media campaign with blogs and held our first face-to-face event post pandemic at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. You can see our X/Twitter thread here. The aim of the day was to provide local optimisation teams the opportunity to network, share learning and participate in some workshops to support knowledge and skill development in the various elements of the optimisation care bundle.
During the event we heard about a preterm birth journey presented jointly by Dr Sarah Thompson, Neonatologist at Arrowe Park, and from a patient who provided valuable insight into how it feels to experience preterm birth, what went well and how we can improve.
Local teams were invited to share excellence in implementation of the optimisation care bundle. These presentations created lots of discussion and debate and some of that was around the complexities on antenatal corticosteroid timing. Some of this was discussed in the recording with Dr Nigel Simpson, however I thought it would be useful to share some further resources that discuss some of these complexities.
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