This work stream provides the digital elements of the Better Births vision. Better Births recommends if we are to improve the quality of care, learning and productivity, the NHS needs to make it much easier for health professionals to collect and share data with each other and with their patients.
This new way of working requires significant change to many and impacts all areas of the pregnancy pathways including ante-natal, labour and birth and all the post-natal period, across all health care.
The Secretary of State refers to safety as the golden thread running through the Maternity Transformation programme. Making better use of data, improving women's experiences of care, and ensuring the maternity workforce has regular training will all make a significant contribution to safer maternity services.
We will continue to run networking forums, engaging with clinicians and local digital health care leaders.
Better Births recommends that to improve quality of care, learning and productivity, the NHS needs to make it much easier for health professionals to collect and share data with each other and with their patients. The new model of care requires a significant change in the use and access of information to support continuity of care throughout the ante-natal, intrapartum and post-natal period.