Improving safety in maternity services: a toolkit for teams

Improving safety in maternity services: a toolkit for teams:

This toolkit is organised around five key areas for improvement in maternity care: teamworking; communication; training; information and guidance; and staffing and leadership. Each section begins with a brief explanation on how focusing on improvements in each area can contribute to improved safety. It then highlights some of the experiences of the maternity teams who focused on this issue and their key learning points. There are also short summaries of tools that can be used to improve safety.

• Teamwork section
• Communication section
• Training section
• Information and guidance section
• Staffing and leadership section 
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