3. trust feedback from qa visit
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A Quality Assurance visit Sue Chatterley, Deputy Head of Midwifery, July 2016
A – Ante N – Natal N – New B – Born Screening Programmes
An opportunity –
To review existing structures: No more plasters
To improve multidisciplinary working and forge new relationships
To listen to women and shape the service according to their needs
To raise the profile of screening, secure additional funding and move it from fringe to mainstream
Finding the needle in the haystack
All women and babies are offered screening: fortunately the uptake is high
Luckily the results are normal in most cases but finding the few mothers and babies affected can make all the difference
At LGT more than 9000 women and babies were screened last year but the team were always just looking for the one mother and baby
No space for complacency – the search for the next needle is already underway
What was needed?
Meetings
New guidelines
Working parties
Job descriptions
Recruitment
Incident reviews
Process
Agendas and minutes
Finding gaps
Exploring new ways of working
Finding gaps Finding gaps
Working with women
MDT working
Resources and Investment
Finding gaps
The scale
Cake
6 National ANNB screening programmes
Many different ways of working
1 screening team
13 community teams
| 2 sites
And…
The recognition that ANNB screening impacts on other services:
• The way women refer themselves for maternity care
• The provision of antenatal clinic services
• Administrative support services