NHS Maternity And Neonatal Hub

[WEBINAR] – Why History Matters: Strengthening Maternity And Neonatal Safety Through Reliable Access To Historical Data

[Duration: 52.14 mins] This webinar, in association with Digital Health, explores the importance of the person history for the effective and safe delivery of maternity and neonatal services as well as to support reviews, investigations and future learnings.

Featuring Gayle Dellow, Lead Digital Midwife, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Hadleigh Stollar, Chief Executive of Healthcare Innovation Consortium (HIC) and the founder of the EPR Network; and John McCann, VP of Global Marketing, BridgeHead Software.

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[PART 1 BLOG] The Hidden Risks in Maternity – Why Information Matters

In this blog, John McCann reflects on why safe maternity care depends on clinicians having reliable access to a woman’s full maternity history. Drawing on NHS experience and recent scrutiny of maternity services, he explores how fragmented records increase risk, hinder decision-making, and complicate governance, investigation, and accountability – highlighting the growing safety implications of continued reliance on legacy systems and workarounds.

[PART 2 BLOG] Improving Access To Maternity And Neonatal History – From Challenge to Practical Action

The second blog in John McCann’s maternity series focuses on practical steps NHS organisations can take to improve access to critical historical data. It outlines five guiding principles to help make maternity and neonatal information more visible, usable, and trusted – supporting safer care and more confident decision-making.

[INFOGRAPHIC] From Fragmented Records To Confident Care

This infographic explores one of the key challenges facing maternity and neonatal services today: ensuring that the right information is available when it is needed. As patient history becomes dispersed across current and legacy systems, EPRs, scanned documents and paper records; accessing a complete view of care can become increasingly difficult. The infographic highlights the impact this can have on clinical decision-making, governance, investigations and operational efficiency, while outlining practical principles NHS organisations are adopting to improve access to maternity and neonatal history.