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Tommy's short animation video on pre-eclampsia

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Tommy's short animation video on pre-eclampsia

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Enhanced continuity of carer options video

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Play this video to share an overview of continuity of carer and the 8 options available for families to consider

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Enhanced CoC engagement information pack

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Enhanced CoC engagement information pack

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Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme

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Continuity of Carer - LSC Maternity Resource Hub 

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Continuity of Carer - LSC Maternity Resource Hub 

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The continuity of carer model is a way of delivering maternity care so that childbearing women and birthing people receive dedicated support from the same midwifery team throughout their pregnancy, birth and transition to parenthood.

Lancashire and South Cumbria Maternal and Newborn Alliance are committed to ensuring the provision of evidence-informed, family-centred models of midwifery across all maternity services. Relational Midwifery Continuity of Carer has been shown to transform outcomes and safety for those who use maternity, offering a more positive and personal experience. MCoC was also the single biggest request of women heard during the latest National Maternity Review.

MCoC has been shown to improve job satisfaction, offering flexible and meaningful practice models for midwives. Ongoing service pressures, resource constraints and implications of COVID-19 have contributed to challenges with implementing MCoC at the scale required to ensure improved outcomes and long-term sustainability. Support is being offered at local, regional and national level to strengthen essential building blocks and address workforce needs.

Building on the recommendations of Better Births and the commitments of the NHS Long Term Plan, the ambition for the NHS in England is for MCoC to be the default model of care available to all pregnant women in England, with rollout prioritised to those most likely to experience poorer outcomes. Where safe staffing allows and essential building blocks are in place, this should be achieved by March 2024.

As a system, Lancashire and South Cumbria are offering support to each maternity unit, including:

providing funding for a dedicated MCoC lead midwife at each site

funding for MCoC equipment and resources

system-level consultancy support.

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Continuity of Carer - Maternity Resource Hub

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The continuity of carer model is a way of delivering maternity care so that childbearing women and birthing people receive dedicated support from the same midwifery team throughout their pregnancy, birth and transition to parenthood. Lancashire and South Cumbria Maternal and Newborn Alliance are committed to ensuring the provision of evidence-informed, family-centred models of midwifery across all maternity services.

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Trixie McAcree - overview of Midwifery Continuity of Carer

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Trixie McAcree - overview of Midwifery Continuity of Carer

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Midwifery Continuity of Carer and Patient Safety

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Enhanced Continuity of Carer team case study

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Enhanced Continuity of Carer team case study

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Improving health outcomes for women and babies at higher risk of complications during pregnancy and birth

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Researchers in NIHR ARC South London’s maternity and perinatal mental health theme have been leading research to ensure high-quality care for all women before, during and after pregnancy.

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Introducing Continuity of Carer - Better Births

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Introducing Continuity of Carer - Better Births

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Introducing "Continuity of Carer" (Better Births)

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NHS webpages for families - pre-eclampsia

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NHS webpages for families - pre-eclampsia

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Useful video links and summaries written for families

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Pre-eclampsia is a condition that affects some pregnant women, usually during the second half of pregnancy (from 20 weeks) or soon after their baby is delivered.

Symptoms of pre-eclampsia

Early signs of pre-eclampsia include having high blood pressure (hypertension) and protein in your urine (proteinuria).

It's unlikely that you'll notice these signs, but they should be picked up during your routine antenatal appointments.

In some cases, further symptoms can develop, including:

severe headache

vision problems, such as blurring or flashing

pain just below the ribs

vomiting

sudden swelling of the face, hands or feet

If you notice any symptoms of pre-eclampsia, seek medical advice immediately by calling your midwife, GP surgery or NHS 111.

Although many cases are mild, the condition can lead to serious complications for both mother and baby if it's not monitored and treated.

The earlier pre-eclampsia is diagnosed and monitored, the better the outlook for mother and baby.

Video: what is pre-eclampsia and what are the warning signs?

In this video, a midwife explains the warning signs of pre-eclampsia.

Who's affected?

There are a number of things that can increase your chances of developing pre-eclampsia, such as:

Other things that can slightly increase your chances of developing pre-eclampsia include:

a family history of pre-eclampsia

being 40 years old or more

it's more than 10 years since your last pregnancy

expecting multiple babies (twins or triplets)

having a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or more

If you have 2 or more of these together, your chances are higher.

If you're thought to be at a high risk of developing pre-eclampsia, you may be advised to take a 75 to 150mg daily dose of aspirin from the 12th week of pregnancy until your baby is born.

What causes pre-eclampsia?

Although the exact cause of pre-eclampsia is not known, it's thought to occur when there's a problem with the placenta, the organ that links the baby's blood supply to the mother's.

Treating pre-eclampsia

If you're diagnosed with pre-eclampsia, you should be referred for an assessment by a specialist, usually in hospital.

While in hospital, you'll be monitored closely to determine how severe the condition is and whether a hospital stay is needed.

The only way to cure pre-eclampsia is to deliver the baby, so you'll usually be monitored regularly until it's possible for your baby to be delivered.

This will normally be at around 37 to 38 weeks of pregnancy, but it may be earlier in more severe cases.

At this point, labour may be started artificially (induced) or you may have a caesarean section.

You'll be offered medicine to lower your blood pressure while you wait for your baby to be delivered.

Complications

Although most cases of pre-eclampsia cause no problems and improve soon after the baby is delivered, there's a risk of serious complications that can affect both the mother and her baby.

There's a risk that the mother will develop fits called "eclampsia". These fits can be life threatening for the mother and baby, but they're rare.

Page last reviewed: 28 September 2021
Next review due: 28 September 2024

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Pre-eclampsia is a condition that affects some pregnant women, usually during the second half of pregnancy (from around 20 weeks) or soon after their baby is delivered.

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Action of Pre-eclampsia Charity education resources

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Action of Pre-eclampsia Charity education resources

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Tommy's Charity: pregnancy hub - pre-eclampsia resources

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Tommy's Charity: pregnancy hub - pre-eclampsia resources

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Pre-eclampsia is a serious condition that affects some pregnant women, usually after 20 weeks or soon after their baby is delivered.

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NHS England's Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) aims to address local healthcare inequalities experienced by deprived and other under-served populations. ​

Project teams (comprising of clinical and non-clinical expertise) from across the country are working together with their local communities to identify, address and minimise healthcare inequalities through projects to improve access to the latest health technologies and medicines.​

These technologies and medicines are focused on five clinical areas of priority that closely align with the national Core20PLUS5 approach to reducing healthcare inequalities, which includes maternity, mental health, respiratory, cancer diagnosis and cardiovascular disease. ​

Nationally a total of £4.2 million was made available to support the programme and to fund eligible projects across England. These projects have been designed and developed by local teams to make sure that those most in need within their geography will benefit from this investment. Key to the projects are voices from local communities who are guiding this work.

Through this unique approach to addressing local healthcare inequalities, InHIP is helping build new relationships with system leaders and laying the foundations for other programmes of work to adopt similar approaches.

NHS England's InHIP programme is a collaboration between the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC), NHS England's National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme and the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and delivered in partnership with integrated care systems (ICSs).

This programme builds on the AAC and AHSN networks' achievements and learning to date in improving access to innovations in healthcare for the general population. ​

Local projects

This is a map showing the spread of projects and clinical area of focus. For the full list of projects (including the population focus and specific clinical pathway) please see below.

*Areas without projects did not/or were not able to submit an InHIP project proposal in Oct 2022.

Detailed summary of projects

East of England NHS England region

London NHS England region

Midlands NHS England region

North East and Yorkshire NHS England region

North West NHS England region

South East NHS England region

South West NHS England region

Further information

For more information on InHIP activities in your area please contact your local AHSN.

You can also contact the national team with any queries via email at aac.innovation@nhs.net

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NHS England’s Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) aims to address local healthcare inequalities experienced by deprived and other under-served populations. ​

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Local maternity programme timeline graphic

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Local maternity programme brief outline document (All4Maternity/UCLan)

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Local maternity programme brief outline document (All4Maternity/UCLan)

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This document offers a brief outline of the programme including timelines and objectives.