Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 045
IMPACT ASSESSMENT (Indicate with ‘x’ all those that apply in the second column):
The recommended option requires:
• A capital investment by the Trust of £1.85
million
• Endorsement of the financial consequences
Financial
X
i.e. targeting an overall improvement in the
trading position of maternity services by
2013/14 of £508 589
• Recognition that 100% of future maternity
income streams translate into resources
available to the Women and Children Division
Business and market share
Clinical
Workforce
Environmental
Legal & Policy
Equality and Diversity
X
X
X
X
The recommended option identifies:
• an initial catchment loss of births from
Sandwell
• a repatriation of 400 low risk births once the
stand alone birth centre in Sandwell is open
and
• over three years a repatriation of 600 local
births in Birmingham from other hospitals in
Birmingham
• Clinical drivers for change
• Changes to clinical practice
• Compliance with national guidance
The recommended option includes the following
workforce impact:
• Workforce implications from the
reconfiguration of high risk births including
change of base site for staff, increase in
consultant labour ward cover to 60 hours a
week, dedicated maternity theatre team at
Sandwell will no longer be required,
• Development of a midwifery team with skills
and experience to run a stand alone birth
centre including investment in additional posts
for this team
The pre-consultation engagement work and the
formal public consultation has been undertaken in
line with Section 7 of the Health and Social Care
Act 2001 and Section 242 of the Health Act 2006.
The project management methodology has
followed the Department of Health guidance on
significant service review set out in Changing for
the Better (2008).
The Project Steering Group has followed an Equality
Impact Assessment process. This is summarised within
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