- Following
6 months of development in collaboration with clinicians, programmers
and trial sites, the Maternity
Core Data Index is presented herewith for wider consultation.
It contains 214 data items, listed chronologically and with explanations
and references about origin. It is consistent with data collected
in the WM Pregnancy
Notes and Birth
Notes, and the Neonatal
Core Data Index. MCDI integrates fields from key NHS datasets
and audit requirements which are relevant to maternity care –
including NN4B, Smoking (DSC50/2002), National Screening Committee’s
antenatal and neonatal screening audits, fetal growth assessment,
breastfeeding, data for CEMACH Rapid Report Forms, and CNST. Comments
are welcome and should be sent to: manners@pi.nhs.uk
with subject line: MCDI.
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- The
MANNERS Antenatal
Screening Tool has completed successful trials across the West
Midlands, and is on target for full implementation in April 2004.
It will enable units to provide 18 of the 20 items required by the
National Screening Committee for audit purposes. It is anticipated
that the first reports will be available by Summer 2004.
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- In
preparation for the MANNERS Maternity rollout in autumn 2004, we are
disseminating to all WM units our Consent
Protocol for secondary use of perinatal data. It links in with
information provided in the Pregnancy Notes, and requires a signed
record by the care provider to confirm that the information has been
given.
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- The
first report of the WM Neonatal Care Audit (including NIC, HDU and
Special Care) is due for completion in May 2004. Status for the project
is available here.
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- There
have been recent enquiries from outside the West Midlands, and several
units in other regions have expressed an interest to implement MANNERS.
The first of these units came on line in February 2004.
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