Nottingham University Hospitals says it is continuing to work hard on its maternity services after an inspection report recommended several improvements. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has released its 2022 Maternity Survey for trusts across the country, with several improvements being recommended for the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUH).
Areas of improvement highlighted by the CQC include staff encouraging mothers to feed their babies and mothers being able to get a member of staff when needed. Overall, NUH performed as expected in regards to 49 questions asked in the survey, completed by 211 patients, whilst scoring better than expected for one and worse than expected for another.
The question where the trust performed worse than expected related to mothers being encouraged and supported in regards to feeding their baby. The trust says that in August and September 2022, it expanded its infant feeding team so that there are now four more workers supporting in this area.
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Sharon Wallis, Director of Midwifery at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust said: "As a team, we continue to work hard together to make improvements to our services and these results and feedback are important to help us to continue to shape our maternity services going forward for our communities.
"We have already been analysing the results and using them to help us to continue to make positive changes. We are not only looking at the areas of concern but also looking at the aspects where we can build on, to ensure the service is the best it can be.
"One of the areas we have been looking is how we improve our infant feeding support and in September 2022, we expanded our infant feeding team so that we now have support workers at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) and City Hospital who have a focus on supporting with feeding in the early days. We are continuing to look at this area to see how else we can improve the support."
The survey comes amid an ongoing review into maternity services at NUH by Donna Ockenden. The review will be investigating more than 1,000 cases after reports of dozens of babies dying because of the care received at the QMC or City Hospital.
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