Reducing Perinatal & Infant Mortality
in the West Midlands was identified as a key priority
in
NHS West Midlands 5 year strategic framework 'Investing
for Health' (IFH) published in November 2007,
which aims to work collaboratively to improve the
region’s health.
Project 2c, Reducing Perinatal & Infant Mortality
was initiated in 2008 and is a collaborative approach
across all health Trusts and the Strategic Health
Authority (SHA) to try to better understand the root
causes of why the West Midlands has such high incidence
of these deaths. It focuses on areas where the existing
evidence suggests that early interventions are most
likely to improve the health and well being of both
the mother and the baby and thus reduce the incidence
of adverse outcome. It also seeks to collect robust
information from a variety of sources to allow wider
intelligence to inform future commissioning and delivery
of an improved service.
The project has four distinct work
streams which are interrelated and sometimes reliant
upon each
other to deliver the overarching aims of the programme:
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1. |
Key Performance Indicators reported in quarterly
Health Improvement Report (www.wmpho.org.uk) |
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2i |
A framework for data capture - Maternity Systems
Survey - (www.ifh.westmidlands.nhs.uk) |
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2ii |
A regional confidential enquiry into intrapartum
related deaths - (www.pi.nhs.uk) |
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3. |
A local accountability and governance framework
- Local Implementation Groups - (www.ifh.westmidlands.nhs.uk) |
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4. |
Routine standardised regional maternity
data collection and analysis – coordinated
and implemented by WMPI (www.pi.nhs.uk)
The
Regional Perinatal Dataset can be found here
The 5 Quality
Indicators
- Rationale & Targets
document can be found here
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