Issue - meetings

Report and presentation submitted by Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Cheshire and Merseyside (Sefton)

The Committee considered the report and presentation submitted by Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Cheshire and Merseyside (Sefton). Kate Clark, Executive Medical Director and Dawn Meredith, Maternity Services, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, and Kerrie France, Associate Director of Quality and Safety Improvements, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside (Sefton), attended to present information on Maternity Services for women and babies and an overview of maternity provision by Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust. The presentation outlined the following:

·       Maternity Services

·       Geographical area covered by Southport and Ormskirk

·       The areas and population served

·       Population Demographics 2020-21

·       Maternity Services offered across the two Hospital sites

·       Activity 2021/22, in terms of booking and deliveries

·       Additional Specialist Clinics

·       Community Midwifery

·       Action Plan following 2015 Quality Assurance (QA) Visit

·       Headlines

·       Reding the Signs – overview of East Kent services led by Kirkup (October 2022)

·       Implementation System learning

Members of the Committee asked questions/raised matters on the following issues:

·       Ante-natal classes offered

·       Statistics on alcohol intake during pregnancy

·       Percentage of on-line patient records

·       Proportion of under-19s pregnancies in Sefton

·       Measuring improvements in reductions in neo-natal deaths

·       Work undertaken and sharing of learning with Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

RESOLVED: That

(1)      Kate Clark, Dawn Meredith and Kerrie France be thanked for their attendance;

(2)      the report and the presentation be noted; and

(3)      additional information be requested on stillbirth rates, neonatal death and brain injury.