- MANNERS has
successfully completed its NHS Numbers for Babies pilot and has
been certified by the NHSIA as NN4B compliant. Birmingham City
Hospital are about to replace their interim system for NHS Baby
Numbers (INNS) with MANNERS. The Perinatal Institute is now in
the position to support all maternity units in the region who wish
to replace INNS. As MANNERS is an NHS initiative, we will also
make it available to NHS units in other regions and nationally,
either as a comprehensive system or as free individual modules.
The NHSIA have been made aware of this development.
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- The
core maternity dataset has been out for consultation for over 6
months. The dataset has been amended in response to comments received,
as well as pilot site feedback, and has been agreed by the MANNERS
Maternity Professional Advisory Group. The dataset integrates fields
from the main audit datasets relevant to maternity care – including
NN4B, Smoking (DSC 50/2002), National Screening Committee (antenatal
and neonatal screening), fetal growth assessment (GROW) and CNST.
This dataset is designated ‘Phase 1’ and consists of antenatal
(1a) and birth (1b) components.
- The
antenatal screening part of the dataset has been developed for
electronic audit, and has also received favourable NHSIA review.
Antenatal screening audit will be a national requirement for all
units from April 2004. Training has commenced for local antenatal
screening co-ordinators to help with the generation of electronic
reports. After a regional pilot, which will conclude in autumn,
we intend to make the screening module available nationally as
a free audit tool.
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- MANNERS
neonatal is now fully established for direct entry or data
download by all neonatal units in the region. Representatives
of the Perinatal Institute have recently attended a DoH meeting
called to investigate the feasibility of national audit of neonatal
intensive care data, and have argued for the inclusion of denominator
data (i.e. all births), as planned in the West Midlands.
- Phase
2 neonatal dataset has begun rollout across the region and
will be in use in all units by end July 2003. The consultations
for phase 3 is due to begin in September.
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