This looks like an important initiative that is likely to improve care in many areas, but I have to say,  I just don’t get the concept of a low risk induction. If a woman/baby is low risk, why are they being induced? I was always taught that you never undertake induction of labour unless you are prepared to do an emergency caesarean for the reason that the induction is taking place. So all women who have their labours induced are high risk aren’t they, by definition?

 

Or am I missing something fundamental here?

 

All the best

 

Soo

 

 

Dear all

 

The NHS England London Strategic clinical network for maternity had a launch event yesterday.

http://www.londonscn.nhs.uk/networks/maternity-childrens/maternity/

The Overarching aim is to reduce variation in outcomes and experience of care for women and their babies in London.

FOCUS AREAS are

§  Maternal mortality

§  Reducing stillbirth

§  Women’s experience

A range of briefings and implementation toolkits are available on the website along with a fantastic film about IMPROVING MATERNITY EXPERIENCE ACROSS NHS SERVICE. The Maternity toolkits cover two work streams on models of care and improving outcomes, and are evidence based and address implementation by providing examples from London.

§  You can see the Full suite of toolkits on the web page above.

§  Continuity of midwife care

§  Outpatient induction of labour in low risk women

§  Midwifery led units

§  Maternity experience workshop

§  Post partum haemmorhage

§  Reducing stillbirth through improved detection of fetal growth restriction

§  Fetal fibronectin testing

 

Regards

Jane

 

 

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Jane Sandall
Professor of Social Science and Women's Health

NIHR senior Investigator
Division of Women’s Health | Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine | King’s College London |Women’s Health Academic Centre | St. Thomas' Hospital

London| SE1 7EH

Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

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“Birth in Europe in the 21^st Century" is now published in English and is available  http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Life-stages/sexual-and-reproductive-health/publications/entre-nous/entre-nous/birth-in-europe-in-the-21st-century.-entre-nous-no.-81,-2015