Results of this national survey show the majority of women who gave birth in February 2021 were positive about the care they received. But the impact of the pandemic has led to poorer experiences for some, and exacerbated concerns around the quality of postnatal care.
View the report and Trust benchmark data here
Report identifies areas for action with aim of helping to accelerate current pace of change and to support maternity services, along with their trust boards and stakeholders, to focus on steps they can take now to ensure women and babies get consistently good, safe care.
Read the full report here
The Care Quality Commission has published Getting safer faster: key areas for improvement in maternity services. This briefing is based on an analysis of published inspection reports, the findings from the 2019 maternity survey and discussions with providers and members of the public at a coproduction event held last year. It focuses on governance, leadership and risk management; individual staff competencies, team working and multi-professional training; and active engagement with women using maternity services.
Also see the CQC briefing on improving safety in NHS maternity services
The Care Quality Commission has published the results of its Maternity services survey 2019. This survey looked at the experiences of over 17,000 women receiving maternity services during February 2019. The report shows that overall, women reported many positive experiences of maternity care; there has been important improvement across a greater number of questions compared to 2018 and positive upward trends are evident over time in areas such as feeding choices and partner involvement
See also the Outliers report here
This is the sixth survey of its kind that CQC has carried out to help trusts better understand the experiences of women using maternity services and involved 129 NHS trusts. The results are used by CQC as part of its wider monitoring of hospital services. The findings highlight women’s views on all aspects of their maternity care from the first time they saw a clinician or midwife, during labour and birth, through to the care provided at home in the weeks following the arrival of their baby. See full results for England, as well as individual results for each trust.
Also available: CQC press release
NCT’s response to the CQC’s maternity survey here
RCOG response here
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