East Midlands Alison Whitham Maternity Associate Maternity & Children Network Team 14 th May 2014 Personalised Care Nursing and Midwifery Summit.

East Midlands

Alison Whitham

Maternity Associate

Maternity & Children Network Team

14th May 2014

Personalised Care Nursing and Midwifery Summit

NHS Mandate• The Mandate for Maternity supports

improvements to the care and experience of women and families during pregnancy and in the early years for their children.

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PromisesThe Government asks the NHS Commissioning Board to ensure that the NHS:

1. Offers women choice of providers.

2. Reduces the incident and impact of post natal depression through earlier diagnosis, and better intervention and support.

3. That every women has a Named Midwife who is responsible for ensuring she has personalised, one to one care through out pregnancy, childbirth and during the postnatal period, including additional support for those who have a maternal health concerns.

• Dan Poulter – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Department of

Health has also expressed his support for Personalised Maternity Care

and has asked for a project to be set up which will describe:

• What will good maternity services look like in 2022 when the pledges are fully

implemented?

• What workforce requirements are needed leading up to 2022?

• Facilitate a Gap and Bridge Analysis Click icon to add picture Click icon to add picture

• Series of Workshops held

• London

• Leeds

• Birmingham

• Newcastle

• Taunton

• For further information contact [email protected]

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Every Contacts Counts & No decision about me without me

Personalised Maternity Care