The current maternity services in the county are mainly made up of several partner organisations. These include our two main maternity service providers at Northampton General Hospital (NGH) NHS Trust, and Kettering General Hospital (KGH) NHS Foundation Trust. Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust (NHFT) is responsible for the delivery of the Child and Family Public Health Nursing Services (including Family Nurse Partnership) as well as Perinatal Mental Health Services. Care and support also comes from local General Practitioners (GPs), the local county councils and public health services.

We believe women and their families have the right to expect the highest standards of maternity care. This will be achieved through a genuine change in the services, by us listening and working with local women and their families as well as our maternity staff.

The delivery of Better Births in Northamptonshire is overseen by a board which is made up of clinicians representing maternity services (including representation from Neonatal Services), local NHS commissioners, NHS England, Public Health Services, Northamptonshire County Council (NCC), and service user groups such as Healthwatch and Northamptonshire Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP). Collectively this group of representatives is called the “Northamptonshire Local Maternity Systems (LMS) Delivery Board.”

The delivery board meets monthly to review the transformation and progress of the maternity services.