Perinatal optimisation refers to The BAPM ‘Perinatal Optimisation Care Pathway’ and is the process of reliably delivering evidence-based interventions in the antenatal, intrapartum and neonatal period to improve preterm outcomes.
Reliable delivery of the this Pathway depends on a strong teamworking culture, high quality communication habits and pursuit of common goals within perinatal teams, undertaken within a favourable quality context where the structure and processes support an optimal environment for delivering quality improvement.
This 'Building Successful Perinatal Optimisation Teams' Toolkit will enable perinatal teams to assess their quality context, team interactions, functioning and ways of working and to use this assessment to provide intelligence about culture and readiness for change.