Your baby is now officially an embryo and is about the size of a poppy seed.
Please visit www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/4-weeks-pregnant/ for more information.
Three Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services
On 30 March 2023 NHS England published its three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services.
The plan sets out a series of actions for Trusts, ICBs and NHS England in order to improve the safety and quality of maternity and neonatal services with a focus on personalised care and equity and equality.
It combines a number of existing maternity and neonatal requirements including the original Better Births (2016) report, the Long Term Plan (2019), Ockenden (2020 and 2022), East Kent (2022), Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle v2, CSNT requirements, MBRRACE reports, BAPM7 neonatal ambitions and equity/race related guidance.
The report sets out the 12 priority actions for Trusts and systems for the next three years, across four themes:
- Listening to women and families with compassion
- Supporting the workforce
- Developing and sustaining a culture of safety
- Meeting and improving standards and structures.
Our very own Ask a Midwife social media messaging service features as a case study on the use of social media to communicate with service users (see page 38). Congratulations to all involved in setting up, supporting and promoting this ground breaking service over the last 3 years.
