On this page, you will find updates related to some of the Best Start workstreams in Lothian.
Community Hubs
Work is underway to pilot community hubs to bring routine maternity care closer to home. The Best Start Project Board is working with midwives in Lothian to pilot the model.
Maternity Care Survey
In June 2024, we re-launched the Maternity Care Survey. Community midwives text the survey to mothers at day 10. There is a short 5 minute version and a longer 15-20 minute version.
NHS Lothian is keen to hear your views on your Maternity Services experience. What you tell us will help us develop services that meet the needs of local families like yours.
Neonatal
In August 2023, the Scottish Government announced that Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen will be the three centres in Scotland caring for the babies with the highest care needs. This will involve transfer and repatriation of babies within our regional Health Boards and will be planned on a regional level.
Our Keeping Mothers and Babies Together teams have rolled out seven day care in the community by our Neonatal Community Outreach Team (NCOT). This includes provision of phototherapy and nasogastric feeding in the home, where clinically safe according to criteria-led-discharge. This initiative has been rolled out to babies born at Simpson’s Centre for Reproductive Health and St John’s Hospital.
