Evidence and resources
- NHS England: Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services - This combines actions from Better Births, Ockenden, East Kent, the Long Term Plan, etc.
- NHS England: Better Births: Improving outcomes of maternity services in England
- GOV UK: Ockenden review
- GOV UK: Maternity and neonatal services in East Kent: 'Reading the signals' report
- GOV UK: 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future
- NHS England: Maternity and neonatal voices partnership guidance
- MBRRACE-UK: Maternal and perinatal mortality reports - Annual national confidential enquiries into maternal deaths, inequalities and lessons.
- GOV UK: Renewed Women's Health Strategy for England
- NHS England: Core20PLUS5 (adults) - an approach to reducing healthcare inequalities
- GOV UK: The best start for life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days
- HM Government: The best start for life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days
- NHS England: Saving babies' lives version three: a care bundle for reducing perinatal mortality - NHS England's standard for reducing stillbirths and neonatal deaths; maternity services are measured against compliance with this bundle.
- Black Maternal Health - National resource and advocacy for addressing inequalities in maternal outcomes for Black women.
- CQC: Maternity improvement resource - CQC Maternity Inspection Reports (National Programme)
- CQC national maternity inspection report summary
- NCT: From expectation to reality: Parents' experiences of pregnancy, birth, and life with a newborn
- Theo Clarke: Birth Trauma Report - A landmark national report highlighting the impact of birth trauma on families and its role in triggering the ongoing National Maternity Inquiry.
- Department of Health and Social Care: Sexual and reproductive health - National public health intelligence resource providing data and analysis on sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
- Department of Health and Social Care: Child and maternal health -National resource offering data and insights on maternity and newborn health, supporting service planning and improvement.
- National smoke-free pregnancy incentive scheme - National initiative supporting pregnant people to quit smoking, aiming to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes.
- The Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathways - National guidance outlining care pathways for perinatal mental health, supporting improved outcomes for parents and infants.
- Maternity Transformation Programme - National programme driving improvements in maternity services, focusing on safety, choice, and personalisation.
- West Yorkshire and Harrogate Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) - this contains: LMNS priorities, transformation plan, equity and equality action plan and local governance structure.
- NHS England: Maternity services dashboard - this includes: perinatal outcomes, inequality metrics, performance across WY&H providers (CHFT, MYHT, Leeds, Bradford, etc.).
- NHS West Yorkshire: Equity and Equality Action Plan 2024 - 2027
- Born and Bred In (BaBi) Calderdale/Huddersfield and Wakefield are local versions of the wider BaBi research programme. They recruit families during pregnancy or early childhood and link routine health, education, environmental, and service-user data. The insights generated are used to improve maternity care, early years services, and population health outcomes. The BaBi expansion into Calderdale/Huddersfield and Wakefield directly affects Kirklees because many local families use maternity and early-years services delivered by Mid Yorkshire Hospitals and CHFT. This means some Kirklees parents and babies are already part of neighbouring "Born and Bred in" cohorts, even without a formal Kirklees BaBi site. Insights from these cohorts, linking routine health, education, environmental and service-use data, are expected to inform the Healthy Child Programme and wider public health planning in Kirklees.
- Healthwatch: Local Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership
- Healthwatch: 15 steps to maternity reports for Pinderfields
- Healthwatch: 15 steps to maternity report for Calderdale Royal
- Internal public health dashboard - Maternity data from MYTT and CHFT (not publicly available)
- Director of public health report 2021/22: First 1000 days
- Kirklees Health and Wellbeing Strategy
- Director of public health report 2022/23: Poverty matters
- Paper to Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny Committee, 14/10/25: Maternity Services at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Mid-Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Maternity Services at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Mid-Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- CHFT MYTT Joint paper
- Report prepared for Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- CHFT maternity paper
- Dad Matters (Home-Start UK) - Community-based programme supporting fathers' mental health and engagement in maternity and early years services.
- Auntie Pam's - The service provides a time-rich, person-centred model of support, enabling women and families to identify their own priorities and make informed choices to improve their health and wellbeing.
- Support for Women in Antenatal Services (SWANS) - A specialist multi-agency service that supports vulnerable pregnant women with complex social needs, including women affected by substance use, domestic abuse, poor mental health, involvement in the criminal justice system, sex work, or previous children being removed from their care.
- Families Together and Best Start Family Hubs
- MBRRACE-UK data viewer
- MBRRACE-UK perinatal mortality surveillance report
- MBRRACE-UK: Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care report
- The BMJ: Improving vaccine uptake during pregnancy
- British Journal of General Practice: Characteristics associated with influenza vaccination uptake in pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study
- GOV UK: Pertussis immunisation in pregnancy: vaccine coverage
- GOV UK: RSV maternal vaccination coverage in England
- Fingertips - Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and vaccination data. Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. Public health profiles. Crown copyright 2026.
