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10/11/2016
NHS England has announced the sites that will test its maternity services of the future.
Seven local areas will take forward the recommendations outlined in the 'Better Births' report.
Better Births recommended that NHS England should "seek volunteer localities to act as early adopters" to harness enthusiasm for change and test the model of care described in the review.
These Early Adopter sites will help develop and implement changes to local services by bringing providers and commissioners together as Local Maternity Systems to ensure women and their babies receive safe, more personalised care that meets the needs of the local community.
The chosen Early Adopter sites are Birmingham and Solihull STP, Cheshire and Merseyside STP, Dorset STP, North Central London STP, North West London STP, Somerset STP, and Surrey Heartlands STP.
Selected by a panel, the sites will test a range of ways to help transform maternity services, including using small teams of midwives to offer greater continuity of care to women, creating single points of access to a wider range of maternity services, making better use of electronic records to provide more joined up care, improving post natal care, and providing better personalised care planning.
The areas cover a population of nine million, with around 126,300 births each year. Over the next two years, a share of up to £8m will be made available to support the change in maternity services.
Sarah-Jane Marsh, Chair of the Maternity Transformation Programme and Chief Executive of Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital, said: "I am hugely excited to be working with our fabulous seven early adopter areas.
"They are crucial to transforming maternity care in England, and the changes they implement will make services more responsive, personalised, safer and kinder, as well as providing learning for the rest of the country."
Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England and Senior Responsible Owner for the Maternity Transformation Programme, added: "These seven early adopters have all presented strong clinically lead visions for transforming maternity services.
"The changes these sites seek to make will be wide ranging and test a number of recommendations from Better Births, such as making continuity of carer a reality for women, ensuring personalised care planning and improving postnatal care.
"The Early Adopters will help deliver real improvements to maternity care in these areas."
(JP/LM)
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Sites To Test Future Maternity Service Unveiled
NHS England has announced the sites that will test its maternity services of the future.
Seven local areas will take forward the recommendations outlined in the 'Better Births' report.
Better Births recommended that NHS England should "seek volunteer localities to act as early adopters" to harness enthusiasm for change and test the model of care described in the review.
These Early Adopter sites will help develop and implement changes to local services by bringing providers and commissioners together as Local Maternity Systems to ensure women and their babies receive safe, more personalised care that meets the needs of the local community.
The chosen Early Adopter sites are Birmingham and Solihull STP, Cheshire and Merseyside STP, Dorset STP, North Central London STP, North West London STP, Somerset STP, and Surrey Heartlands STP.
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Selected by a panel, the sites will test a range of ways to help transform maternity services, including using small teams of midwives to offer greater continuity of care to women, creating single points of access to a wider range of maternity services, making better use of electronic records to provide more joined up care, improving post natal care, and providing better personalised care planning.
The areas cover a population of nine million, with around 126,300 births each year. Over the next two years, a share of up to £8m will be made available to support the change in maternity services.
Sarah-Jane Marsh, Chair of the Maternity Transformation Programme and Chief Executive of Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital, said: "I am hugely excited to be working with our fabulous seven early adopter areas.
"They are crucial to transforming maternity care in England, and the changes they implement will make services more responsive, personalised, safer and kinder, as well as providing learning for the rest of the country."
Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England and Senior Responsible Owner for the Maternity Transformation Programme, added: "These seven early adopters have all presented strong clinically lead visions for transforming maternity services.
"The changes these sites seek to make will be wide ranging and test a number of recommendations from Better Births, such as making continuity of carer a reality for women, ensuring personalised care planning and improving postnatal care.
"The Early Adopters will help deliver real improvements to maternity care in these areas."
(JP/LM)
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