Biography

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Q Exchange ideas

• 2-way communication for family-centred, individualised birth planning and informed decision-making

  We want to revolutionise the way women & families interact with HCPs, to incorporate digital tools but maintain individualised discussions to enable empowerment in making informed and personalised birth choices.

• Co-producing equitable and respectful maternity care using a systems approach

  Co-producing community-led service improvements in maternity care in partnership with Black women and their families, the NHS, local authorities, commmunity groups and the voluntary sector.

• Helping each other through a healthy pregnancy – peer support groups for pregnant women with risk factors

  Setting up peer support groups in the hospital antenatal clinic setting. Kills two birds - makes good use of hospital waiting time, as well as provides women with risk factors in their pregnancy with a network of peers with similar challenges and experiences. e.g. Older mums, pregnancy after loss, women with BMI >30, multiple pregnancy.

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Blog posts

• How healing and trust play a part in health improvement

  Hosting an Experience Day for 39 international conference delegates in the Golborne Community turned out to be an inspirational, emotional and highly educational experience for Q member Sabrina Das. She reflects on the day and how trust built in a local community that had suffered historical trauma contributed to its success.

• Amplifying diverse voices: ingredients for successful co-production

  Sabrina Das, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, reflects on her work co-producing services with local mothers in the Family Voices Big Room.

• Co-creating a Big Room with families in West London

  How do we harness the power of community partnership and bring together primary and secondary care with the third sector and community members to improve the health of a local population? Sabrina uses the Big Room method in the Golborne Estate in West London.

• “I worked there, so I felt safe” – a medic’s experience of losing voice

  Q member and consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Sabrina Das shares her experience of attempting to meaningfully involve a maternity patient and colleague in an improvement conversation where she did not want to make a complaint, and yet wanted the team to learn from her negative experience.

• ‘Nothing has changed but everything has changed’ – a lunch hour empathy lesson

  Q members, Sabrina Das and Fazeela Chharawala share a moving “HOTT Conversation”, involving a very large and complex thrombectomy team, a man who had a stroke 12 months prior, and his wife.

• Co-design during a pandemic: the Antenatal Big Room

  Sabrina Das and Amy Cruickshank, share their learnings in co-design for the Antenatal Big Room at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

• My COVID Story: Sabrina Das

  Q member, Sabrina Das shares her inspiring story of adapting to remote consultations and implementing a virtual 'Big Room' check-in to tackle crowded waiting rooms.

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