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The South East Coast Normalising Birth programme focuses on developing ways of working within delivery units to encourage normal birth for all women. Increasing normal birth rates has a direct effect on mothers; they are more mobile after birth, able to bond quicker with their babies and have higher breastfeeding rates than those who undergo caesarean births. Data on crude caesarean rates are currently collected in most units which often only indicate that a caesarean was an elective or an emergency. Crucial to promoting normal birth is being able to target specific clinical groups of women who have undergone caesarean sections. By monitoring these groups by trust and identifying which require most scrutiny, the data can be used both within individual units and across the SHA to identify clinical variation, find reasons for this variation, share challenges and solutions and learn from units undertaking best practice. The Normalising Birth dashboard supports delivery of the programme by presenting complex clinical data in a way that is simple to understand, and benchmarking results to enable spread of best practice. Turn over to find out more…...
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The aggregate caesarean section rates in group 1, group 5 and overall for each delivery unit (bars), shown against the SHA rates (lines)
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A monthly measure of the ratio between elective and emergency caesarean sections
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The aggregate caesarean section rate in the first five groups, which represent the majority of deliveries
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The dashboard includes an option to look at the data either from the perspective of rates of caesarean section, or rates of vaginal birth (which includes instrumentally assisted delivery)
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The second part of the dashboard is trust specific and, importantly, shows the data over time, on a monthly basis, as opposed to the aggregate position displayed in the first part. Users are able to view their own trust’s results but also that of any other trust in the region, as well as an overall SHA position. Again, the number of indicators is quite small, and Robson groups are used extensively. Data is presented in a simple graphical format, but also includes a small table to summarise wider results.
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The monthly caesarean section rates in group 1, group 5 and overall for each delivery unit (bars), shown against the monthly SHA rates (lines). The overall caesarean section rate for the previous 6 months leading into the start of the programme is also shown (derived from central data sources).
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A monthly measure of the ratio between elective and emergency caesarean sections
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The number of sections carried out in each Robson group, next to the caesarean section rate within that group and the contribution this makes to the overall caesarean section rate, to enable targeting of high impact groups.
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The monthly group 1 rate plotted against the number of reported adverse incidents; these include admissions of the baby to special care, third and fourth degree tears, uterine rupture and five minute Apgar scores below 3.
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