Improving maternal and infant health and care: at admission in labour and promoting attachment and breastfeeding in neonatal units – Evidence into Practice consultations.

This formal evidence-based exercise was conducted across the Yorkshire and Humber region from October 2010 and engaged over 400 colleagues across sectors and disciplines.  The consultation took the following form:

  • Scrutiny of the formal evidence base identified potential actions for implementation.
  • Regional consultations and workshop discussions involving over 400 colleagues in the region then debated how these might work in real-world practice, and identified strategies, barriers and examples of best practice to enable implementation.
  • The report has been written in a way which presents each identified evidence-based along with views on how these could be implemented most effectively.

BreastfeedingA  range of actions were identified in both topic areas that are needed to address shared issues such as the need to tackle unit culture, to develop multidisciplinary leadership, and to develop multidisciplinary education and training.  This demonstrated that although these two topic areas are normally seen as very different, they share a common set of challenges and potentially, a common set of solutions.  For this reason, both topic areas are presented together in the same report, to enable joint learning and sharing.

 

Using the report

The report can be used in a number of different ways including:

  • As the background and evidence base to working with the HIEC on implementing the report recommendations for the Getting it right from the start project
  • As the basis of planned practice and service development, to inform education and training, and to improve the health and care of women and babies receiving care in these settings.
  • By service and education commissioners, clinical managers, senior clinicians, improvement teams, clinical effectiveness leads, and educators in university and NHS settings, to introduce and monitor evidence-based change and as part of education and training programmes. 
  • Service users, the voluntary sector, and MSLCs can use it to examine whether or not best practice is being implemented.

To make the report as accessible as possible for its different uses you may want to access it in different ways:

 

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