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Maternal and Neonatal Electronic Recording System


 
Number 5 - August 2003
 
     
  • Following review of the many antenatal booking forms currently in use within the region, we have devised a generic booking form which is presented herewith for consultation. Your feedback would be appreciated - please contact Nicola Beamish with any comments by 15 September latest. The current draft is for a paper form, but future plans are to incorporate an electronic version within MANNERS.
 
  • The GROW program for customised growth charts as stand-alone software is now in use in 18 of 20 maternity units in the West Midlands. To allow generation of customised charts within MANNERS, avoiding need for re-entry of the data items, the IT team have now also completed an integrated web-based version.


  • The development of the stand-alone antenatal screening module has been completed and is now available for use in units who do not yet wish to install the full MANNERS Maternity System
 
  • Birmingham City Hospital is about to become the first unit to migrate away from INNS and use the MANNERS maternity module. For full story see the NHS Information Authority website.
 
  • MANNERS Neonatal has been configured to provide automatic notifications to the Congenital Anomaly Register.


  • Ongoing validation checks for data entry have now been established, as a second layer in addition to the MANNERS in-built data validation tool. Initial results have been very positive and show good data quality and ascertainment.
 
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