Leadership

Like any change, successful implementation of the Listen2Baby Toolkit will depend on commitment and planning. Your senior managers need to agree to implementation and understand what is involved.

It is important to keep your senior leadership team updated on progress with implementing the Listen2Baby Toolkit, including what changes you are planning, and resources you might need.

Downloadable summary of Listen2Baby for your senior leadership team

This explains what the Listen2Baby Toolkit is, how it works, and what benefits it can bring.

Next steps

Collect Data

Numbers can be powerful. Collecting data can:

help build your case for change;
provide a baseline to measure against.

Do you know…

How many women coming into your unit should be offered IA?
How many women are monitored using IA?
What % of births were attended by a second midwife?

Check out the Toolkit Data about IA resources for more help.

Build a business case

Use data to inform your case.

Might you need more staff to ensure a second midwife in the second stage of labour?

Have a look at guidance on using data for more help.

Update

Find examples where changes to practice have potentially improved outcomes. This might include midwives with increased confidence in their IA skills, or an increase in the % of women monitored using IA.

Feed this back to your senior leadership team and your staff!

Resources

Try Stakeholder Mapping to help you work out whose support will be key for implementing the Listen2Baby Toolkit.

Listen to Emma Neville, Fetal Monitoring Lead Midwife at Leicester University Hospitals NHS Trust, talk about why IA is important.