Women and Children's Health Information Programme
Promoting and protecting the health and wellbeing, of mothers and children are key to preserving the health of current and future generations. The Women and Children's Health Programme is working to support improvements in reproductive and child health in Scotland through the provision of high quality information.
The Programme aims to work collaboratively with its customers to provide a range of information outputs that will support the provision of healthcare, put policy into practice and contribute to public health in Scotland.
The programme covers a wide range of maternal and child health issues including:
- Pregnancy
- Births and babies
- Child health
- Sexual Health
The programme is also developing and implementing the SBR; a new web-based clinical data collection system. This project will support the development of an electronic health record in Scotland, particularly the elements that relate to maternal and child health.
The programme brings together related areas of work and the team is able to bring a wealth of experience to support service planning and delivery as well as patient care. Recently an anonymous linked dataset was developed that joins together the information of mothers and their babies. This will enable us to gain new insights in the causes and consequences of, for example, pre maturity and low birth weight.
Steering Group
- Maternal and Fetal Health Chair and Consultant Obstetrician, Professor Jane Norman (Chair)
- Consultant Gynaecologist, Dr Sharon Cameron
- Nursing, Midwifery and AHP lead for eHealth, vacancy
- Allied Health Professional, Professor Kirsty Forsyth
- Consultant Paediatrician and Lead for West of Scotland MCN for Child Protection, Dr Jean Herbison
- Child Health Commissioner, NHS Highland & Chair of Maternal & Child Health Information Strategy Group, Sally Amor
- Consultant Neonatologist, Charles Skeoch
- Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Anne Scoular
- Regional Planning Director West of Scotland, Heather A. Knox
- Clinical Development & Improvement Team Leader, Women's, Children's & Specialist Services, Fiona Dagge-Bell
- Scottish Government Health Directorate (SGHD) - Public Health & Substance Misuse Division (Felicity Naughton); Senior Medical Officer for Women and Children (Dr Catherine Calderwood); Head of Maternal and Child Health Division (John Froggatt); Change and Delivery Manager, Maternity Services (Christine Duncan)
- ISD - Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Head of Programme (Dr Jim Chalmers); Clinical lead, Children and Consultant in Public Health Medicine (Dr Rachael Wood); Programme Principal (vacancy) and programme team leads/project managers for Scottish Birth Record, Maternity, Neonatal and Record Linkage, Data Augmentation for Sexual Heal (DASH) and Child Health
Publications
Contacts
For general information about the Women and Children's Health Programme:
Jim Chalmers Head of Programme Consultant in Public Health Medicine email: jim.chalmers@nhs.net Tel: 0131 275 6136
Rachael Wood Clinical Lead (Children) Email: rachaelwood@nhs.net Tel: 0131 275 7028
Or contact the generic WCHIP mailbox NSS.isdwchip@nhs.net
