Accountable to:

Chair:David Melbourne: Chief Finance Office / Deputy Chief Executive

Vice Chair:Diane Reeves: Accountable Officer BSC CCG

AIMS

To provide assurance to the Board that the Maternity and Newborn Pathway Re-design is moving forward within plan with effective risk mitigation and mapping of expected benefits.

The initial priorities [KF1]for the programme board are:

Choice & Personalisation Pioneer

  1. Delivery of the NHS England Maternity Pioneer project:
  2. Offering and increasing choice for women and their families
  3. Offering a Personal Maternity Budget (PMB)

STP / Early Adopter

  1. Successful appointment as an Early Adopter site for the National Maternity Review.
  2. Delivery of a fully redesigned Maternity & Newborn Pathway across Birmingham & Solihull

Specifically

To implement a redesigned financial model for Maternity and Newborn Services that includes the offer of a Notional Personal Maternity Budget for women. Women will use this budget to choose and pay for their chosen providers of Maternity services throughout their pathway. The delivery of the budget is within the gift of the Pioneer who should be seeking to test alternative approaches prior to full roll out from NHS England.

The STP workstream will deliver the plan and model as defined in the Early Adopter bid. There will be full transformation of maternity pathways from a single point of access at booking to post-natal discharge. This will link with seamless care for all newborn, including those requiring normal care as well as specialist neonatal care.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. Toprovide assurance to the System Transformation Plan Board that the Maternity & Newborn workstream is progressing well and will deliver the expected benefits in a timely manner.
  2. To critically evaluate appropriate Project Documentation, ensuring that there is a systematic dynamic process of risk assessment throughout the programme.
  3. Ensure that appropriate stakeholders are effectively engaged
  4. To provide critical challenge to the chairs of the workstreams, ensuring their development of meets the required outcomes.
  5. To ensure that appropriate systems are in place to ensure the clinical effectiveness of the transformation
  6. To support the communication and showcasing of the wider programme gaining support and confidence from the wider public.

KEY ACTIVITIES

  • Develop a coherent system of reporting and analysis of information relevant to the projects within the wider programme (e.g. highlight reports, risk register, issues log etc.).
  • To monitor the Programmes participation in external events, ensuring key messages are delivered.
  • To monitor and review development of each of the work streams, ensuring gateways for progression are confirmed and met.
  • To develop and oversee a Sub-committee (PMO), Workstreams and Governance reporting schedule.

MEMBERSHIP[KF2]

Member / Role
David Melbourne / Chair
Diane Reeves / Vice Chair
Helen Young / Programme Director
Sam Pretlove / Programme Clinical Lead
Cathy Rhodes / Clinical Director HEFT
Sam Foster / Chief Nurse HEFT
Kerry Forward / Charlotte Barry / Programme Manager
Alison BedfordRussell / West Midlands Maternity and Newborn Clinical Network
Elaine Newell / Director of Midwifery Sandwell & West Birmingham (midwifery advisor)
John Lees / Commissioner Lead
Claire Elliott / Julia Lawley / GP representatives
Georgina Dean / Finance Lead
Dennis Wilkes/Ian Mather / Public Health Leads
Beverly Ingram / Exec Clinical Lead – Health Education England
Phillip Lyddon / Head of Operations, Women’s & Children’s: HeFT

Members should appoint a deputy to represent them if they are unable to attend a particular meeting, provided that the deputy is from the same work arena and familiar with the project and the required updates.

FREQUENCY

The Board will meet monthly.

QUORUM

A quorum will be satisfied by the presence of the Chair and a minimum of five other members of the Group.

GOVERNANCE

REPORTING/LIAISON

The programme board reports into the STP Board as required.

Within the programme board the Executive Director of Maternity Transformation will provide a verbal summary report at each meeting that highlights key events from each of the below expected written reports.

Monthly Reports[KF3]

The Board will receive the following reports:

-Workstreams highlight reports

-Pioneer update

-Project plan update

-Risk register / BAF

-Deep dive / verbal presentation from x2 workstream chairs

-Summary report for STP and provider trust boards

Quarterly Governance Reports

The committee will monitor and review the Board Assurance Framework ensuring that programme risks are appropriately mitigated. Each workstream will hold a local risk register.

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[KF1]From your PID what are the pressing prioties / timescales for your LMS?

[KF2]Who are the key players from your LMS?

[KF3]With the right suite of Project Documentation, this doesn’t need to be onerous.