PRiSMM: PReventing Severe Maternal Morbidity and mortality through a national programme of interventions

PRiSMM is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded programme aimed at reducing the number of women who become severely ill or die during pregnancy, birth or early motherhood. We will be supporting the introduction of a new care bundle being designed to tackle some of the major underlying causes of harm in pregnancy. The programme will run for five years and will look at certain aspects of the care bundle to understand what works well for women, staff and the health care system, ensuring that care bundles are developed in a way that leads to the best improvement in outcomes for women and babies. The team will also be developing a new approach to collecting data to measure maternal morbidity in England.

The programme is being led by Associate Professor Claire Carson (University of Oxford) and Dr Kate Duhig (KCL) with collaborators from Kings College London, Imperial College London, University of Exeter, City and St Georges University of London, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and patient and public representatives.