National Maternity Early Warning Score : Podcast 3

The NHS England National Patient Safety Team has produced a third podcast to provide an overview of the feedback from the testing phases for the national Maternity Early Warning Score (MEWS) tool. This is the third of three podcasts from the NHS England National Patient Safety Team. In this podcast, Tony Kelly, National Clinical Advisor Maternity & Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeoSIP) NHS England; Hannah Rutter, Senior Improvement Manager, MatNeoSIP NHS England; Louise Page Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, West Middlesex University Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Anita Banerjee, Consultant Obstetric Physician, Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust; and Rebecca Wilson-Crellin, Clinical Lead, Culture and Leadership in the Maternity Transformation Programme discuss the feedback received during testing and the importance of reducing unwarranted variation by implementing the new national MEWS tool.