Maternity improvement resource
Published: 19 September 2024
Page last updated: 19 September 2024
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Board members
What we look for
Well-led
Shared direction and culture
- How does the maternity service's vision and strategy encompass the needs of those with protected characteristics and the local population?
- Have you implemented a local strategy based on the Local Maternity Systems Equity and Equality Action Plan?
- How does the board understand local communities’ profile, health needs, and community assets and map them against the existing services to identify gaps in service delivery?
- What is the board oversight of the public sector equality duty?
- How have you created an enabling environment to reduce inequalities and inequities in terms of overall service model, for example community hubs?
Governance, management and sustainability
- Does the board know what the action has been by the maternity service to reduce inequality of negative outcomes for individuals?
- Is health inequality on the maternity services risk register and how does this translate to the board for monitoring?
- Are you assured that protected characteristics are taken into consideration when incidents are reviewed and reported to the board?
- How do service-level safety champions ensure women's voices are represented at board level?
Partnerships and communities
- How does the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) work together with the trust to engage with women who represent the local population?
The importance of people's experience
- Do you receive patient stories at board from those with direct experience of the maternity service?