Internal Reference Number: FOI_7665
Date Request Received: 12/01/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 25/01/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Maternity FOI
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: For the calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, please provide: 1. The number of midwifery "red flag" incidents (examples provided here: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng4/chapter/recommendations#box-3-midwifery-red-flag-events) identified in your maternity departments, broken down by year o If your organisation has other "red flag" incidents agreed locally, please specify what they are and how many occurred per year o Of these, please specify how many of these incidents (as a proportion - i.e. 65%, and the raw number) related to staffing levels. 看片软件E guidelines state that the midwife in charge should document whether midwifery staffing is the cause: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/safe-staffing-maternity-apendices.pdf | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see attached. *please note these figures have been hidden to adhere to IG regulations as the results could potentially identify <5 patients in one of the columns and equally in the totals To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 7655 Question 1.pdf | |
| Question Number 2: 2. Please also specify the number of times patients needed to be diverted to other trusts to deliver their baby, broken down by year o Of those, please break down (again as a proportion and raw number) how many diverts were 飩� a) due to a lack of staff 飩� b) for other reasons, please provide details | |
| Answer To Question 2: One unit closure in August 2023 due to NICU capacity and equipment. | |
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