Saving Babies' Lives Project Impact and Results Evaluation: a Mixed Methodology Study

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · Jul 26, 2017

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ClinConnect Summary

Reducing stillbirth and early neonatal death is a national priority. Best practice and key evidence indicates this is potentially achievable through application of four key interventions within routine maternity care delivered as NHS England's Saving Babies' Lives care bundle. However, adoption of the care bundle by UK maternity services is still in its infancy and there is significant variation in the degree of implementation between and within units. The effectiveness of the care bundle, when implemented as a package, in reducing stillbirth and service delivery has not yet been evaluated....

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria for Maternity Service Users:
• • Women who received their antenatal care, delivered and were discharged from the same maternity unit
• • Women who have given birth after 28 weeks of gestation
• Exclusion Criteria for Maternity Service Users:
• • Maternal age ≤ 16 years
• • Individuals who cannot understand/not fluent in English (to enable consent without interpreter)
• • Multiple pregnancy
• • Fetuses known to have any congenital or severe structural abnormalities
• • Home births
• Inclusion Criteria for Maternity Healthcare Professionals:
• • Midwives working before and after implementation of the care bundle (including antenatal ward, antenatal clinic, community-based staff, antenatal assessment unit and labour ward)
• • Community midwives working before and after implementation of the care bundle
• • Sonographers working before and after implementation of the care bundle
• • Junior doctors working before and after implementation of the care bundle
• • Consultant obstetricians working before and after implementation of the care bundle
• • Clinical Directors and Heads of Midwifery working before and after implementation of the care bundle
• Exclusion Criteria for Maternity Healthcare Professionals:
• • - Staff who were employed after the care bundle was implemented