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Maternity Safety & Risk

After Ockenden, every trust board asks whether their maternity services are safe. Most cannot answer with confidence.

The gap between compliance and genuine safety intelligence is where risk accumulates. The Strasys Maternity Index moves clinical leaders from lagging indicators to predictive intelligence, showing where risk is building before incidents happen.

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Dashboards show what happened. They do not show what is about to.

Post-Ockenden. Post-Kirkup. Every NHS trust with a maternity service faces the same question from the board: are we safe? The answer, in most trusts, relies on lagging indicators. Incident reports filed after the harm. CQC assessments that surface problems months after they developed. Dashboard metrics that tell you last quarter's story, not next month's risk.

The challenge is not data. Maternity services generate enormous volumes of data across workforce, quality, safety, activity, and patient experience. The challenge is that these datasets sit in different systems, reported to different committees, reviewed at different frequencies. No single person sees the whole picture.

This is the gap where harm accumulates. Not because of negligence. Because the system was not designed to show where risk is concentrating before it becomes an incident.

Maternity claims remain the single largest category of NHS clinical negligence litigation. The cost of getting this wrong is measured in lives and in billions.

Strasys Maternity Index

From lagging indicators to predictive safety intelligence.

The Strasys Maternity Index is the UK's only proprietary AI-driven maternity benchmarking system. It connects workforce, quality, safety, and performance data into a single predictive intelligence layer that shows where risk is accumulating across a maternity service.

Unlike standard dashboards that report what has already happened, the Maternity Index identifies patterns that precede incidents. It enables clinical leaders and trust boards to act on evidence before the harm, not after the investigation.

The Maternity Intelligence Agent (MIA) extends this with AI-driven continuous monitoring that surfaces emerging risks. Combined with Maternity Service Transformation advisory, this is the most comprehensive maternity safety offering in NHS consulting. The Maternity Index is Decision Intelligence applied to the highest-risk clinical service in the NHS.

The intelligence for safer maternity services

Predictive. Proprietary. Purpose-built for NHS maternity.

Strasys Maternity Index

The UK's only proprietary AI-driven maternity benchmarking system. Connects workforce, quality, safety, and performance into predictive intelligence.

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Maternity Service Transformation

Evidence-based redesign of maternity services. From governance structures to workforce models, built on what the data actually shows.

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Maternity Intelligence Agent (MIA)

AI-driven continuous monitoring of maternity service data. Surfaces emerging risks for clinical and governance teams before they become incidents.

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Only

Proprietary maternity index

In UK healthcare

AI

Predictive risk intelligence

Not retrospective reporting

Ward

To board coverage

Frontline to governance

CNST

Incentive scheme aligned

Safety linked to premiums

"If you only look at the dashboard, you miss the disaster. We need leaders who can triangulate the spreadsheet with the reality on the ward."

NM

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Innovation Officer, Strasys

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Questions leaders ask about maternity safety

Practical answers for clinical leaders and trust boards.

The Maternity Index draws on workforce data (staffing levels, skill mix, agency reliance), quality data (incidents, complaints, outcomes), safety data (serious incidents, near misses, red flags), and performance data (activity, capacity, demand patterns). It connects these into a single picture that standard dashboards cannot provide.

CQC maternity assessments evaluate safety, quality, and leadership. The Maternity Index provides the continuous intelligence layer that helps trusts maintain and demonstrate the standards CQC assesses. Rather than preparing for an inspection, trusts using the Maternity Index have the evidence base in place at all times.

Yes. The Maternity Index does not replace your existing reporting. It sits above it, connecting datasets that your dashboard reports separately and identifying patterns that retrospective reporting cannot surface.

MIA is an AI-driven capability that continuously monitors maternity service data and proactively surfaces emerging risks. It is the first live AI intelligence agent purpose-built for NHS maternity services.

Yes. The Maternity Index can benchmark maternity services across multiple trusts within an ICB, providing system-level visibility of where safety risk and quality variation sit across the footprint.

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A short conversation can clarify how the Maternity Index applies to your trust.

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