Local initiatives for pregnancy have been collected from the following local areas:
- NHS Fife
- NHS Forth Valley
- NHS Grampian
- NHS Highland
- NHS Lanarkshire
- NHS Lothian
- NHS Shetland
- NHS Western Isles
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NHS Fife
- The Board provides a short educational course for grandparents and close relatives in NHS Fife and bordering Board areas. The course provides information and new parenting skills to support new parents care for their baby.
For more information contact:
Catherine Cummings, Clinical Midwifery Nurse Manager
Forth Park Hospital
30 Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy, KY2 5RA
Tel: 01592 643355, Email: catherine.cummings@faht.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Forth Valley
- Comprehensive programme of parent education is currently provided to all pregnant women in Cornton Vale Prison, and is delivered by a designated midwife team and health visitor on an individual basis. NHS Forth Valley is in the process of planning to offer and deliver a tailored ‘drug abuse in pregnancy’ education class to all young teenagers and vulnerable women in Cornton Vale Prison to ensure that the best possible antenatal care is provided.
For more information contact:
Gillian Morton, General Manager
Women and Children
Tel: 01324 624000 x 5004, Email: gillian.morton@fvah.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Grampian
- Aberdeen Maternity Hospital provides a multidisciplinary, multi-agency antenatal education programme specifically designed for women with problematic drug use during pregnancy. The programme is based on early nurturing intervention principles developed by the charity Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) which aims to support the women and families of Aberdeen City in a non-judgemental way. The programme encourages women to start thinking about the positive changes that can be achieved through understanding good parenting skills, and the importance of securing emotional attachment between mother, father and baby to improve a vulnerable child’s life through altering lifestyle. The education is co-ordinated and offered on an inpatient and outpatient basis.
For more information contact:
Joan Milne, Nurse Manager
Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology Unit, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital
Tel: 01224 554903, Email: Joan.milne@arh.grampian.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Highland
- NHS Highland is developing good practice guidelines in conjunction with the Scottish Training in Drugs and Alcohol (STRADA) partnership to support staff in the management of drug and alcohol misuse in pregnant women. The guidelines provide detailed guidance on all aspects of planning a maternity care pathway for individual women and their families with necessary community links and support agencies to allow women to feel more confident in their ability to manage parental and family responsibilities.
- NHS Highland health promotion department is currently developing an ‘information trail’ detailing the range of written material that all parents and carers should have access to across Highland. The information trail covers the period from pre-conception up to the age of 5 years old. The information provided is produced both locally and nationally, and the trail directs parents and professionals to related support services and resources. The Highland information trail includes a detailed list of website addresses for parents.
For more information contact:
Helen Bryers, Head of Midwifery/Area Consultant Midwife/LSAMO
NHS Highland
Assynt House, Beechwood Park, Inverness, IV2 3HG
Tel: 01463 704921, Fax: 01463 717666, Mobile: 07887 813736
NHS Lanarkshire
- The Board has established an antibody group which meets on a monthly basis to consider all women who have been identified as having blood group antibodies in their blood. The group comprises of a consultant haematologist, a consultant obstetrician, a senior haematology MLSO and a senior midwife. The review team considered this group to be a key strength to the service.
For more information contact:
Evelyn Forrest, Acting Service Manager
Women’s Services
Wishaw General Hospital, 50 Netherton Street, Wishaw, ML2 0DP
Tel: 01698 366354, (Switchboard 01698 361100), Evelyn.Forrest@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Lothian
- In addition to antenatal parent education sessions, the Board also participates in inter-agency working with West Lothian Council’s Sure Start project to provide specific antenatal/parenting for expectant fathers. The course is known as dads2b and runs over a 4-week period at St. John’s Hospital. Course content includes: fatherhood; baby needs and care; labour; delivery; healthcare; and baby massage.
- The review team commended the level of specialist services in place at NHS Lothian and, in particular, highlighted the Board’s provision of coloured imaging scanning as good practice in the investigation and management of placenta praevia.
For more information contact:
Maria Wilson , Chief Midwife
NHS Lothian
Tel: 0131 242 2543, Email: maria.wilson@luht.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Shetland
- The review team commended midwives for their efforts in encouraging all women to undertake the education programme, especially for their one-to-one approach both during and out-of-hours depending on individual circumstances to attend classes and, in particular, for arranging to meet on an individual basis very late in the evening, if required.
For more information contact:
Teresa Chivers, Senior Clinical Midwife
Tel: 01595 743012
NHS Western Isles
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In addition to parent education classes, midwives also provide aquanatal classes at the hydrotherapy pool at Grianan Day Centre, Stornoway. The class provides exercise and relaxation specifically designed for pregnant women from 16 weeks onwards and can be continued from 6 weeks to 18 months following birth.
For more information contact:
Catherine MacDonald, Senior Midwife
Western Isles Hospital
MacAulay Road, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, HS1 2AF
Tel: 01851 404704