NHS Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle

A major programme of work is being carried out by NHS England, with the involvement of the Strategic Clinical Networks, called Saving Babies’ Lives. The programme has developed a ‘care bundle’ for tackling stillbirth with four elements that, if implemented as a package of care to all pregnant women, has huge potential to significantly reduce stillbirth rates.

A combined approach of smoking cessation interventions, fetal movement monitoring, better CTG interpretation, and improved detection of growth restricted babies has been decided upon as the potential solution and will be taken forward throughout this year. Our Made to Measure campaign compliments this work by encouraging trusts to adopt the Perinatal Institute’s Growth Assessment Protocol (GAP) programme.

Two key factors with all of the above proposed plans are teamwork and training. Only a real commitment from the whole multidisciplinary team involved in caring for women and their babies will allow the full benefit of the interventions to be realised. A commitment to learn from situations that could have been managed better, a commitment to continuous improvement of clinical skills, and a commitment to support colleagues to provide the best possible care for the best possible outcomes.

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