National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA)

National Clinical Audit

Delivered by:

Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG)

Website:

NMPA

This programme is a large-scale audit of NHS maternity services across England, Scotland and Wales. Using high quality data, it aims to evaluate a range of care processes and outcomes in order to identify good practice and areas for improvement in the care of women and babies.

The way the NMPA measures processes, outcomes and service provision of individual Trusts against their peers opens up local as well as national conversations between providers and service users. This means that we can co-design services, co-produce personalised care plans, and co-create trusting and honest partnerships between healthcare professionals and women and their families – which can only improve safety and experiences.” Emma Crookes, NMPA Women and Families Involvement Group

Supporting improvement

The NMPA has a quality improvement plan to enable improvements in NHS maternity and neonatal care, in order to optimise outcomes for women and their babies. As part of the process of developing this ‘QI Plan’, the NMPA has developed three ‘QI Goals’ focussed around NMPA indicators. More information about QI can be found on the NMPA website.

Additional data sources

In addition to HQIP-published reports below, you can find further data on their website. They also have a ‘Family Gateway’ section on the website, which is co-produced by our Women and Families Involvement Group.