Wessex Antenatal Care Pathways
Guideline Creation Process
In 2018 the Wessex Maternity Clinical Network was asked to coordinate a review of the existing Wessex Ante Natal Care Pathways, to update where necessary in line with the latest clinical guidelines, to provide governance and sign off and produce an agreed standardised set of pathways and ensure dissemination to the appropriate individual trust boards.
Aim
Objectives
All trusts provided clinical representation to form part of the review group
Trust Representatives are :
Sign Off Process
Administrative support will initially be provided by Wessex Clinical Network
Pathways Version Control
Aim
- An updated, agreed and signed off set of Wessex Ante Natal Care Pathways
Objectives
- To review existing pathways and update where necessary
- Agree the sign off process for the pathways
- Agree how the signed off pathways will be disseminated
- Highlight issues and challenges and discuss solutions
- Make recommendations of how to take this work forward
All trusts provided clinical representation to form part of the review group
Trust Representatives are :
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - Sarah Walker Consultant Lead,
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Oladotun Ilori Consultant Lead/ Hilary Goodman Outpatients Services Manager (Women's Health)
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust - Amanda Rendell Lead Midwife
- Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust - Kerry Madgwick Senior Midwife / Alison Scanell Lead Midwife
- Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Carol Burgess Lead Midwife
- Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Jane Hall Matron Antenatal and Intrapartum/ Tara Pointer-Putt Midwife
- Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Sam Dell – Midwife/ Latha Vinayakarao - Consultant Lead/ Lisa Relton Consultant Midwife
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust - Sally Smith Labour Ward Manager / Christine Smith Midwife
- General Practice - Helen Howells GP Dorset
Sign Off Process
- The pathways have been developed and changes agreed where necessary and signed off by the group.
- Each Trust representative will be responsible for presenting the final updated pathways to their own clinical governance boards for information and dissemination
- The final updated pathways will be re issued to all trusts in PDF format
- The review group will meet every six months to review relevant pathways that require review and agree any changes.
- The next meeting will be held in September 2019
- The multidisciplinary group that developed this guidance have made considerable efforts to ensure the information upon which these guidelines are based is accurate and up to date. Revision may be deemed appropriate if and when new data or national/ international guidance becomes available. These guidelines do not replace the need for application of clinical judgment by clinicians to each individual presentation and specifics of the situation
Administrative support will initially be provided by Wessex Clinical Network
- To include minute taking, action tracking and the distribution of papers.
- Updating the pathways, document control and governance
- The copy of the pathways will be held and stored by Wessex Clinical Networks on their central drive.
Pathways Version Control
- All pathways will be dated and subject to version control to ensure that changes and amendments can be tracked and documents are current
- Process steps in each pathway are colour coded :
- Green Boxes - Primary Care Responsibility
- Orange Boxes – Secondary Care Responsibility
- Green Boxes - Primary Care Responsibility