Overview

The Implementation Programme Board was established in June 2017 to guide the implementation of The best start: a five-year plan for maternity and neonatal care in Scotland.

To deliver this aim, the Programme Board will:

1. Develop an action plan for implementing the recommendations of The Best Start over the five-year implementation period. The action plan will:

• prioritise recommendations
• identify key steps to implementation and their interdependencies
• identify key partners for delivery
• identify timescales and resources required for implementation

2. Analyse the costs and the staffing implications of the implementation and the recommendations over the envisaged five-year implementation period

3. Take forward implementation in partnership with the NHS, service users and key stakeholders, and develop a clear strategy for communication and engagement

4. Put in place mechanisms to measure progress on implementation and report regularly to Ministers

Related groups

• Best Start: workforce and education
• Continuity of Carer and Local Delivery of Care
• Perinatal Services Group

Members

• Jane Grant (Chair), Chief Executive, NHS GG&C
• Prof. Ann Holmes (Vice Chair), Chief Midwifery Advisor & Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Scottish Government
• Dr Corinne Love (Vice Chair), Senior Medical Officer - Scottish Government
• Sharon Adamson, Regional Planning Director, West of Scotland
• Dr Jenny Bennison GP, NHS Lothian, RCGP
• Prof Hazel Borland, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Director, NHS Ayrshire & Arran
• Prof Alan Cameron, Obstetrician, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Elsbeth Campbell, Head of Communications, NHS Forth Valley
• Justine Craig, Head of Midwifery, NHS Tayside
• Elizabeth Duff, Senior Policy Advisor, NCT
• Dr Tara Fairley, Clinical Director, NHS Grampian
• John Froggatt, Head of Child and Maternal Health, Scottish Government
• Dr Roderick Harvey, Medical Director, NHS Highland
• Kate Kenmure, Head of Midwifery, NHS Shetland
• Susan Key, Associate Director, NHS Education for Scotland
• Heather Knox, Director of Acute Services, NHS Lanarkshire
• Caroline Lee Davey, Chief Executive, Bliss
• Dr Helen Mactier, Chair of Scottish Neonatal Consultants Group and Honorary Secretary British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM), NHS GG&C
• Dr Alan Mathers, Chief of Medicine Women and Children, NHS GG&C
• Gillian Morton, General Manager, NHS Forth Valley
• Dr Edile Murdoch, Clinical Director, Women and Children's and Neonatologist NHS Lothian
• Prof Mary Renfrew, Professor of Mother and Infant Health, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Dundee
• Dr Mary Ross Davie, Director for Scotland RCM
• Alison Wright, Chair of Scottish Neonatal Nurses Group, Chair of Scottish Neonatal Nurses Group, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, NHS Tayside