The Better Births report encourages the introduction of community hubs offering antenatal and postnatal care in children’s and community centres which support family health and social services.
To support working across boundaries, the CCG are reviewing how the maternity services work across the county with a view to aligning and unifying work practices. As part of the transformation of our local maternity and neonatal services, we will be linking antenatal and postnatal care into children’s and community centres across Northamptonshire.
The hubs will be situated in locations which support the needs of pregnant women and families. The antenatal and postnatal services will run alongside other services offered to pregnant women and their families, such as financial and employment advice support clinics; food banks; breastfeeding advice; stop smoking and healthy living support; baby weighing clinics – the models will focus on the localised needs of our service users.
We are in the process of working with public health services and Northampton County Council (NCC) to establish locations that best serve our local population.
As we start identifying suitable children’s centres, we will start rolling out the community hubs to support maternity care.
Look out for further details on this website and the KGH and NGH hospital web sites.