Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 9
9
We recommend that a single set of stretching safety training targets should be established by...
Recommendation
We recommend that a single set of stretching safety training targets should be established by the Maternity Transformation Programme board, working in conjunction with the Royal Colleges and the Care Quality Commission. Those targets should be enforced by NHSE&I’s Maternity Transformation Programme, the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Care Quality Commission through a regular collaborative inspection programme. (Paragraph 56) Learning from Patient Safety Incidents
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
41. We accept this recommendation. 42. In collaboration with national maternity partner organisations including the Royal Colleges, HSIB, NHS Resolution and the CQC, the MTP’s Recommendation’s Group has undertaken a review of training recommendations from maternity reports. These insights have been used to inform a Core Competency Framework to address known variation in training and competency assessment and ensure that training to address significant areas of harm are included as minimum core requirements for every maternity and neonatal service. 43. This work has been included as a requirement for meeting Immediate and Essential Actions from the first Ockenden report. The Core Competency Framework provides an evidence-based set of essential training targets upon which stretch targets can be built, incentivised through Safety Action 8 of the CNST MIS. Stretch targets will be considered as part of the next iteration of the framework. 44. In addition, a national Registry of Recommendations is being produced which will help determine newly identify training needs going forwards. 45. Through the Avoiding Brain Injury programme, the MTP will work closely with the Royal Colleges and CQC to standardise the approach to fetal monitoring and to develop support tools as part of training. NHSEI’s MTP are not regulators and so are unable to enforce these targets. However, the MTP will open discussions with the relevant Royal Colleges and the CQC to share information around specific training targets in order to collaborate and support CQC’s inspection programmes.