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 and Chair of Maternal and 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 and Improvement Team Leader, Women's, Children's and Specialist Services, Fiona Dagge-Bell
- Scottish Government Health Directorate (SGHD) - Public Health and 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 and 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 Health (DASH) and Child Health
Projects
Care Quality Indicators for Specialist Children's Services
The Women and Children's Health Information Programme established a project team to work in collaboration with the National Steering Group for the National Delivery Plan for Children and Young People in Scotland 
[440KB] (Scottish Government, 2007) to develop a capacity which would allow services to demonstrate for themselves, and to others, what aspects of quality have improved for children and young people.
The project closed in March 2011 following the successful development of a suite of indicator concepts and engagement with Managed Clinical Networks (MCNs) on how these should be measured.
A copy of the Final Project Report can be downloaded: Care Quality Indicators Final Report [250KB].
National Services Division (NSD) will continue to support networks through the ongoing reporting process which will allow networks to demonstrate improvements against the indicators as part of their quality assurance/performance management process.
For further information please,
Contact: NSS.nsd-enquiries@nhs.net or
Visit: National Managed Clinical Networks (NMCNs)
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
