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Reflecting on a year of progress for the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigation programme

As 2025 draws to a close, we want to share some reflections on what a significant year it has been for the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) programme.
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Putting families at the heart of safer maternity and newborn care

The Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) programme has published its 2025–27 strategy, building on its approach to improving maternity and newborn safety.
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COMPASS Pilot shows promise for improving maternity safety culture

COMPASS (Culture of Organisations and its iMPact on PAtientS’ Safety), a tool developed to help healthcare staff identity and address cultural factors affecting patient safety in maternity services, …
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International Day of the Midwife 2023

This blog post was published when our programme was part of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB). Find out about HSIB legacy.
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Understanding the doula’s role in maternity safety investigations

In this blog, we review doula involvement in maternity cases referred to us for safety investigations.
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Maternity investigations programme to be hosted by Care Quality Commission

It has been announced via a Written Ministerial Statement that the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch’s (HSIB’s) maternity programme will be hosted later this year by the Care Quality Commission …
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Risk assessments during the maternity care pathway

Following the publication of our national learning report on the same topic, Sonia Barnfield looks at risk assessments during the maternity care pathway.
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National learning report highlights risks associated with ‘incomplete’ maternal risk assessments

Our latest learning report emphasises that maternity risk assessments can be inconsistent and do not support changes in pregnant women/person’s circumstances during the ‘maternity pathway’ (pregnancy…
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