Midwives and maternity support workers (MSWs) from NHS Lanarkshire scooped the Kellogg’s All-Bran Award for Midwifery Service of the Year at the Royal College of Midwives  (RCM) Annual Midwifery Awards 2018.

The Kellogg’s All-Bran Award for Midwifery Service of the Year recognises excellence in significant improvements and innovation in the provision of maternity care. The judges consider in this category maternity services that show a real commitment to improving teamwork within multi-disciplinary teams.

Commenting, Gill Walton chief executive and general secretary at the RCM, said: “NHS Lanarkshire is an excellent example of a service that has been consistently seeking to improve the maternity service it delivers and they have an engaged, enthusiastic and empowered team of midwives supporting and wider multi-disciplinary team implementing those improvements which are resulting in high quality care for women and their babies.”

The judges said: “NHS Lanarkshire stood out to us as an example of a maternity team that have the last two years, responded to service user feedback. This has meant a very significant change and improvement in physical ward environments and working patterns for staff. It is a credit to the midwifery team that, while these changes were underway, the high quality service to women and families has continued and quality improvement work has continued rather than stalling.”

Neena Mahal, chair of NHS Lanarkshire, said: “Huge congratulations go out to our maternity services staff. This is a tremendous accolade for our staff, recognising their commitment to multidisciplinary team working and how this impacts positively on the outcomes for women, newborns and their families.

“This award also shows how much innovation is going on in our maternity services and the great effort by our hard-working midwives, maternity support workers and the wider maternity team to provide the safest and best possible person-centred care.”