The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched a new Midwifery Data Dashboard to help the maternity care sector to understand and address recurring themes when midwifery care goes wrong.
The new interactive dashboard provides data and insight from across the regulator’s Fitness to Practise (FtP) processes. The insight sheds new light on the midwifery landscape – by highlighting trends in the concerns that are raised with the regulator about midwives’ practice.
Users can see the most common allegation types within FtP cases involving midwives – which can be expanded to sub-categories which give a more specific description of the concerns. The data can then be filtered to show the allegations raised most frequently by employers or the public – across the UK and in each of the four countries.
The dashboard has already been presented to key stakeholders at the NMC Midwifery Strategic Advisory Group (MSAG) – which includes Chief Midwifery Officers, unions and representative bodies, educators and service users with lived experience of maternity care.
Paul Rees MBE, Chief Executive and Registrar, said: “Every day there are midwives delivering safe, kind and equitable care across the four countries of the UK – but there are also too many occasions when midwifery care falls below the standards that women and families expect, which can have absolutely devastating consequences.
“Our new Midwifery Data Dashboard, launched today, will help our partners to improve safety by targeting the recurring themes in Fitness to Practise concerns.
“By highlighting the concerns that are most commonly raised with us about midwives on the register, as well as those which most frequently result in us taking regulatory action, we are supporting the sector to better embed NMC standards, to improve safety and outcomes.”
