Training for Health Professionals

Baby Lifeline has a proven track record of providing high-quality, effective training, which has benefitted thousands of NHS health professionals. The training directly tackles things that have been shown to lead to the tragic avoidable deaths and injuries of mothers, birthing people, and babies. 

The aim is to improve care and save lives.

 

Training 4,000 professionals per year

Between July 2021 and June 2022 Baby Lifeline trained delegates from over 140 different NHS trusts and health boards across the UK. As in previous years, a significant number of delegates from the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands also received training, and relationships with healthcare providers in these locations remain strong.

There was representation from almost the entirety of England, with 125 acute trusts and six ambulance trusts spanning all regions of the country (see map, opposite). It remains an ambition of Baby Lifeline to endeavour to provide training for any organisation that makes a request, regardless of logistical complexities.

In addition to the trusts and health boards there were attendees from almost 100 other organisations both within the UK and abroad. These included universities, commissioning groups, specialist care providers, overseas healthcare systems, private healthcare providers, and governmental and arms-length bodies.

Baby Lifeline’s training was attended by delegates from countries around the world, including Austria, Belgium, France, Ghana, Iceland, Malta, and the United States. In total, over 4,000 delegates were trained during the period.

Saving Mothers' and Babies' Lives
Baby Lifeline's training improves care in areas shown to contribute to avoidable tragedies in maternity. Improvements to knowledge in these critical areas will save mothers' and babies' lives.
Supporting the NHS Frontline
We've trained thousands of healthcare professionals - midwives, obsetricians, GPs, paramedics, anaesthetists - to make an impact across maternity care.
Improving Care
Training is a crucial part of eradicating avoidable tragedies in maternity, and also improving care generally to help give mothers and babies the best outcome possible.

Decades of Promoting Safer Care

Baby Lifeline began its expert-led training over 20 years ago. Working with the much-respected and admired late Professor Richard Johanson, we developed the BIRTH Series (Bringing Interactive Responsive Training to Hospitals). 

Our focus over the last 20 years has been to develop training which relates and directly responds to the critical factors causing avoidable tragedies in maternity.

Budget restrictions in the NHS have led to a reduced investment in training, in particular for external training where the interaction between those from different professions and different organisations is beneficial to maintaining standards of care. Leading professionals form our extensive faculty to provide valuable training all over the UK. 

 

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