Introduction This document sets out the: roles and responsibilities of the National Maternity Monitoring Group; work programme and reporting requirements; composition of the National Maternity Monitoring Group, and terms and conditions of appointment. Background The New Zealand Maternity Standards (Ministry of Health 2011) consist of three high-level strategic statements to guide the planning, funding, provision and monitoring of maternity services: Standard 1: Maternity services provide safe, high quality services that are nationally consistent and achieve optimal health outcomes for mothers and babies; Standard 2: Maternity services ensure a woman-centred approach that acknowledges pregnancy and childbirth as a normal life stage, and Standard 3: All women have access to a nationally consistent, comprehensive range of maternity services that are funded and provided appropriately to ensure there are no financial barriers to access for eligible women. high-level statements are accompanied by specific audit criteria and measurements of these criteria. One of the criteria is that a National Monitoring Group be established to oversee the maternity system and the implementation of the Standards. Role of the National Maternity Monitoring The role of the National Maternity Monitoring Group is to oversee the New Zealand maternity system and to provide strategic advice to the Ministry of Health on priorities for improvement. Standard 1 of the New Zealand Maternity Standards states National “a Monitoring Group, consisting of a small number of clinical sector experts and consumer representatives provides oversight and review of national maternity … standards, analysis and reporting. The National Monitoring Group provides advice to the Ministry on priorities for national improvement based on the national maternity report, nationally standardised benchmarked data, the audited reports from DHB service specifications, Maternity Referral Guidelines, and the Primary Maternity Services Notice 2007”.
Introduction This document sets out the: roles and responsibilities of the National Maternity Monitoring Group; work programme and reporting requirements; composition of the National Maternity Monitoring Group, and terms and conditions of appointment. Background The New Zealand Maternity Standards (Ministry of Health 2011) consist of three high-level strategic statements to guide the planning, funding, provision and monitoring of maternity services: Standard 1: Maternity services provide safe, high quality services that are nationally consistent and achieve optimal health outcomes for mothers and babies; Standard 2: Maternity services ensure a woman-centred approach that acknowledges pregnancy and childbirth as a normal life stage, and Standard 3: All women have access to a nationally consistent, comprehensive range of maternity services that are funded and provided appropriately to ensure there are no financial barriers to access for eligible women. high-level statements are accompanied by specific audit criteria and measurements of these criteria. One of the criteria is that a National Monitoring Group be established to oversee the maternity system and the implementation of the Standards. Role of the National Maternity Monitoring The role of the National Maternity Monitoring Group is to oversee the New Zealand maternity system and to provide strategic advice to the Ministry of Health on priorities for improvement. Standard 1 of the New Zealand Maternity Standards states “a National Monitoring Group, consisting of a small number of clinical sector experts and consumer representatives … provides oversight and review of national maternity standards, analysis and reporting. The National Monitoring Group provides advice to the Ministry on priorities for national improvement based on the national maternity report, nationally standardised benchmarked data, the audited reports from DHB service specifications, Maternity Referral Guidelines, and the Primary Maternity Services Notice 2007”.