Project aims
On behalf of NHS Wales, Digital Health and Care Wales are leading on the Digital Maternity Cymru programme to digitally transform maternity services in Wales.
As part of this programme, the team are carrying out research with women and birthing people who use maternity services to understand:
- how we can reduce health inequalities
- how can we enable women and birthing people to be digitally included
- their needs around digital services
What are we trying to achieve?
Currently, the maternity service in Wales relies heavily on paper-based clinical records.
Introducing digital maternity records can improve maternity services by:
- supporting and improving the partnership between women and birthing people and the clinicians supporting their maternity care
- allowing professionals to spend more time caring for women and birthing people by reducing the time spent on duplicating data
- making sure records are accessible for all professionals who provide care across Wales
- creating consistency across Wales with all maternity records recorded in the same way
- enabling better reporting of outcome data
Partners
As part of this programme, a multidisciplinary team has been set up with representatives from DHCW, NHS Wales health boards and the Centre for Digital Public Services (CDPS), who are supporting with user research and service design expertise.
Our work programme will continue until March 2024.
