MSLC action plan for 2015-2016

These are the main actions that the MSLC wants to accomplish for 2015-2016. This is not an exhaustive list.
In every area there should be an effective multi-disciplinary maternity services forum, where commissioners, providers and users of maternity services bring
together their different perspectives in partnership to plan, monitor and improve local maternity services. In many areas a maternity services liaison
committee (MSLC) has become well established which provides this function.
Taken from Department of Healths, National Guidance for Maternity Services Liaison Committees (MSLCs)

Areas not mentioned here that will continue would be:

Bi-monthly meetings and user stories

Promotion of BHRUT maternity services: homebirth, birth centre, life study etc.
Walk the patch and feedback to BHRUT staff
Joint up engagement with other groups e.g. Infant feeding and Labour Ward Forums

Headline

Action/Description

How it will be measured?

Team involved

Triage

Triage is a constant area which needs developing. Along with

working with BHR staff to share messages of when to use
triage, MSLC will walk the patch in triage too not speaking
to staff or users but to get impression of how Triage is being
used to see if there are ways to help BHR hit targets of
responding to user need
Working alongside a pledge from Whose Shoes, MSLC will
provide assistance to BHR staff on complaints, and following
up walk the patch feedback with quick actions. Also
gathering and acting on feedback from FFT

Red to Green on the dashboard

Triage team
MSLC users qualified in
walk the patch
Local antenatal provision
organisations

Decrease in complaints by 10%

in the next year.

Head of maternity,
Dashboard, MSLC Chair
and vice-chairs

Impact and actions

WHOSE SHOES ACTION
PLAN

Postnatal care

MSLC wants to improve communication in postnatal wards

between staff and users, to ensure users feel communicated
to and are getting the support they need to in hospital.

MSLC will monitor the impact in

terms of feedback during walk
the patch sessions

MSLC will publish the postnatal guide and will do 7 steps of

communication that will be disseminated to staff who work
in postnatal to put them in the users shoes.

Evaluation of MSLC involvement

in maternity staff.

MSLC
BHR staff

MSLC will also take part in interviews of new maternity staff

to ensure focus on user experience and will look to talk in the
mandatory training of all maternity staff.
Being positive - WHOSE
SHOES ACTION PLAN
Diversify the user group

To help this, MSLC will also ask for tracking on compliments

and sharing good news stories that could be used in publicity
or thought MSLC accounts
MSLC will diversify the users that are involved by learning
from other MSLCs and continuing to advertise the
programme

Increase in positive
compliments by 10% in the next
year
User involvement in the MSLC
will increase

Head of maternity,
Dashboard, MSLC Chair
and vice-chairs
BHR communications
staff
Money from the charity
(for posters etc.)