Informed Decision Making & Consent Within Maternity
Ensuring everyone accessing maternity and neonatal services makes informed decisions
Providing high quality, personalised and safe care within maternity services
TPC Health want to transform patient pathways and one important area is to help spread good practice in informed decision making and consent.
Less than 7 in 10 people have made a truly informed decision to proceed to surgical intervention in this country. This is despite shared decision making and consent being a legal, professional and ethical standard for all practitioners.
High quality decision making and consent practice leads to:
- Less people progressing to surgical intervention
- More satisfied patients and less post-surgical regret
- Lower litigation costs for your organisation
Half Day Maternity Workshop
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TPC Health have designed a practical workshop to support clinical staff to become highly proficient in decision making and consent conversations within a maternity setting.
The workshop will begin with an overview of the ethical, professional and legal frameworks that support good practice. It will then cover well evidenced models that can be used to structure decision making and consent conversations, before supporting participants to practice skills relevant to everyday practice.
Learning Outcomes:
- Ethical, professional and legal frameworks and their relevance to everyday practice for maternity teams
- An overview of decision making and consent, including an overview of conversational models and relevant skills
- Common challenges including applying evidence based care/guidelines to individuals and managing and communicating risk
- Managing challenging conversations
- To gain insights into contemporary, evidence based practice in decision making and consent
- To become more proficient in managing decision making and consent conversations, including communicating risk and uncertainty
- To become more proficient in managing challenging conversations
Participants who partake in this programme will have the confidence to support birthing people make appropriate decisions and consent to interventions during childbirth.
TPC Health are working in conjunction with Professor Alf Collins to help you build high quality decision making and consent practice into your organisation.
Professor Alf Collins led on shared decision making in NHS England from 2016-2023. He has a background in implementation science and embedding change into health systems at scale. He is lead author on the implementation of shared decision making in the upcoming Oxford Textbook of SDM (due for publication in 2025).
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