5. Continuity of Care in COVID-19 - Mel Radford & Dr Anna Byrom

Continuity of Care (CoC) has been shown consistently as being a key part in providing quality care and increasing the physical and emotional safety of the childbearing woman and her baby. Recent maternity service strategies and developments have made this a priority and, even with the impact of COVID-19, midwives and those engaged in maternity services are working to set up strong and sustainable systems to ensure that CoC is provided. These systems are designed to impact on quality of care and to work with the midwives’ working needs also. Increasingly, continuity models are being used within midwifery education programmes, so that students can learn the theory and practice of continuity for themselves as practitioners, and for women and their babies. Presented by:  Sue Macdonald, Midwifery Educationalist; Co-editor, Mayes Midwifery Contributors: Mel Radford, Senior Midwife; Continuity of Carer Implementation Lead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust How do we teach students to integrate online technology and reporting into continuity of care? Dr Anna Byrom, Senior Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire WATCH THIS EPISODE OF THE MATERNITY AND MIDWIFERY HOUR: facebook.com/midwiferyforum/live This programme is supported by MATFLIX: www.matflix.co.uk