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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 trend-based intelligence, showing where performance is deteriorating over time.

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Dashboards show what happened. They do not show which way it is heading.

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 without the direction of travel.

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 performance is deteriorating over time.

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 trend-based safety intelligence.

The Strasys Maternity Index is a comparative index of English NHS maternity services. It connects workforce, quality, safety, and performance data into a single view that tracks the direction of travel across over 100 measures.

Unlike standard dashboards that report a single point in time, the Maternity Index shows where performance is deteriorating over time. It gives clinical leaders and trust boards evidence to act on earlier.

The Maternity Intelligence Agent (MIA) extends this with an AI agent that lets leaders question the data in plain English. Combined with Maternity Service Transformation advisory, it gives boards one connected view of maternity safety. The Maternity Index is Decision Intelligence applied to the highest-risk clinical service in the NHS.

The intelligence for safer maternity services

Comparative. Proprietary. Purpose-built for NHS maternity.

Strasys Maternity Index

A comparative index of English NHS maternity services. Tracks the direction of travel across over 100 measures of workforce, quality, safety and performance.

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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)

An AI agent built into the Maternity Index. Clinical and governance teams ask questions in plain English and see where performance is deteriorating over time.

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100+

Measures tracked

Every trust in England

AI

Trend-based intelligence

12-month direction of travel

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 showing where performance is deteriorating over time.

MIA is an AI agent built into the Strasys Maternity Index. Leaders ask questions about their maternity service in plain English and get answers drawn from the index data, benchmarked nationally.

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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