Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations

Content originally from The Kings Fund

National learning report: factors affecting the delivery of safe care in midwifery units
This report looks at common themes of 92 maternity investigation reports, where the safety incident under investigation included care provided in a midwifery unit. It identifies four main themes and findings, which include issues relating to: work demands and capacity to respond; intermittent auscultation; how prepared an organisation is for predictable safety-critical scenarios; and telephone triage.
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