New event series: Delivering change in maternity, perinatal and neonatal services
In our upcoming online series, about how improvement work can help deliver change in maternity, perinatal and neonatal services.
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Maternity, perinatal and neonatal services are under the spotlight in UK health care. Following several high-profile cases, and with a national investigation underway, improvements in care and safety are needed.
In our upcoming three-part online series, we’ll explore the ways improvement work can help deliver this change.
Throughout Autumn we’ll be hosting a series of workshops giving you the chance to learn from those delivering improvement work in maternity, perinatal and neonatal services.
Featuring speakers from maternity, perinatal, and neonatal services – but open to all – you’ll have the opportunity to hear about the relational aspects of delivering safety improvement, as well as ways to address pressing challenges, including safety and quality of care, inequalities, staff retention, community support and leadership.
Our speakers will share:
- how harnessing your professional networks can help you to learn, enhance your quality improvement practice and retain staff
- strategies for engaging stakeholders, managing relationships in maternity and neonatal teams and supporting effective delivery when teams have competing priorities
- learnings from projects set up to address health inequalities.
Each workshop will be an opportunity for valuable new insights and connections.
You can register now for one, two or all three workshops.
One QI project born every minute: a maternity workshop
18 September, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Join Martin Hogan for workshop on harnessing the power of professional networks to enhance quality improvement (QI) health care practice, staff retention and network growth.
Be inspired by real-life examples from nursing and midwifery, and gain the confidence to initiate QI projects and embrace the mindset of being the change you wish to see, creating solutions where none exist.

Teamwork, leadership and collaboration: facilitating improvement in South London perinatal services
14 October, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
In this interactive session you’ll explore how the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London is tackling complex challenges in maternity and neonatal care.
This workshop aligns with the Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme and focuses on the relational aspects of delivering safety improvement work.
You’ll be able to take part in discussions, role-play and practical exercises to navigate the challenges of implementation.

Delivering change in the system: supporting those who face inequalities
18 November, 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Hear from two organisations working with people who historically have the poorest outcomes when accessing maternity, perinatal and neonatal services.
Doulas Without Borders and Bliss will share their journeys, insights, designs that have delivered routes to impact, challenges they’ve faced, methodologies and how they overcame knotty processes. Learn about the resulting improvements in the experiences of those accessing services.

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