Glossary
- 15 steps visit
- A quality improvement approach that gathers feedback on how welcoming, inclusive and accessible services feel to people using them.
- Advocacy
- Support that helps people have their voice heard, understand their choices and access the support they need.
- Antenatal care
- Healthcare and support provided during pregnancy.
- Befriender
- A trained individual who provides practical and emotional support to help women navigate services.
- Birth centre
- A maternity unit for women with uncomplicated pregnancies that offers a more home-like birth environment.
- CHFT
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
- Community champion
- A trusted local person who promotes health information and helps connect people with services.
- Continuity of care
- Care provided by the same professional or team throughout pregnancy, birth and afterwards.
- Co-production
- Working in partnership with people who use services to design and improve them.
- Health inequalities
- Unfair and avoidable differences in health outcomes or access to services between groups of people.
- Health literacy
- The ability to find, understand and use health information.
- Healthwatch
- An independent organisation that gathers people's experiences of health and care services.
- Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
- A national measure of relative deprivation across areas in England.
- Induction of labour
- Medical methods used to start labour.
- Infant mortality
- The death of a baby before their first birthday.
- Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS)
- A partnership responsible for improving maternity and neonatal services across a region.
- Lived experience
- Knowledge and insights gained through personal experience.
- Maternity assessment centre (MAC)
- A service that assesses concerns during pregnancy.
- Maternal mortality
- The death of a woman during pregnancy or shortly afterwards due to pregnancy-related causes.
- MBRRACE-UK
- The national programme that reviews maternal and infant deaths to improve care and reduce inequalities.
- Midwife
- A healthcare professional specialising in pregnancy, birth and postnatal care.
- Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP)
- An independent forum that represents the experiences of women and families.
- MYTT
- Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.
- Neonatal mortality
- The death of a baby within the first 28 days of life.
- Newborn infant physical examination (NIPE)
- A routine health check carried out shortly after birth.
- Perinatal period
- The period during pregnancy and the first year after birth.
- Personalised care
- Care tailored to an individual's needs, preferences and circumstances.
- Postnatal care
- Care and support provided after birth.
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
- A common virus that can cause serious illness in babies.
- Safeguarding
- Protecting children and adults from abuse, neglect or harm.
- Shared decision making
- Healthcare decisions made together by professionals and patients.
- Stillbirth
- The death of a baby before or during birth after 24 weeks of pregnancy.
- Support for Women in Antenatal Service (SWANS)
- Specialist support for pregnant women experiencing multiple vulnerabilities.
- Trauma-informed care
- Care that recognises the impact of trauma and seeks to avoid re-traumatisation.
- Voluntary and community sector (VCS)
- Charities, community groups and social enterprises.
- Wider determinants of health
- Social, economic and environmental factors that influence health and wellbeing.
- Women's voices
- The experiences, views and feedback of women that help shape services.
