{"id":7479,"date":"2024-06-10T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/uncategorized\/redcliffe-hospitals-maternity-services-statement"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T05:33:00","slug":"redcliffe-hospitals-maternity-services-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/news\/redcliffe-hospitals-maternity-services-statement","title":{"rendered":"Redcliffe Hospital\u2019s Maternity Services statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:89.44rem;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Redcliffe Hospital\u2019s Maternity Services statement<\/h1>\n<p>Redcliffe Hospital has a proud tradition of safe and quality maternity care stretching back more than fifty years.\u00a0 Patient safety is always our highest priority, and we take seriously the trust that mothers and families place in us each day.<\/p>\n<p>We understand that some recent media coverage may have caused uncertainty or concern. If you\u2019re a current patient and would like to talk to someone about this, please contact our Consumer Liaison Team on 07&nbsp;3883&nbsp;7043.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, Redcliffe Hospital invited an independent expert to make an assessment of the entire maternity service. That Maternity Services Assessment looked into everything from clinical performance and outcomes, clinical governance, education and training, to staffing matters. The independent assessment made 37 recommendations.\u00a0 Redcliffe Hospital has now implemented most of those recommendations \u2013 with work continuing of the others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/redcliffe-maternity-followup-report-april-2024.pdf\">Read more about those recommendations and the progress Redcliffe Hospital has made so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many improvements and positive changes made to Redcliffe Hospital\u2019s maternity service are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Additional staffing in some priority areas,<\/li>\n<li>Expansion of the hospital\u2019s Antenatal Day Assessment Service to provide a seven-day service.<\/li>\n<li>A new midwifery Diabetic Educator, as well as a senior Midwifery Director.<\/li>\n<li>An additional allocation of midwives to ensure all women have the support of a midwife in the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit for skin-to-skin contact with their baby following a caesarean section.<\/li>\n<li>Changes to the governance and leadership of the service line in charge of the maternity unit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are all important changes that have improved the safety and quality of maternity care at Redcliffe Hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redcliffe Hospital has a proud tradition of safe and quality maternity care stretching back more than fifty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7482,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions\/7482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}