Last year, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced a rapid, national, independent investigation into NHS maternity and neonatal services in England.

The investigation wants to understand the experiences of staff and healthcare professionals delivering care at all stages of the maternity and neonatal care pathway, and how they can best be supported in providing high-quality, safe and compassionate care.

This includes:

• understanding the experiences of staff and healthcare professionals, at local, regional and national levels, working in the maternity and neonatal care pathway
• understanding how organisational culture and leadership styles influence how staff and healthcare professionals deliver care across maternity and neonatal pathways
• identifying the extent to which recruitment, retention, education and training support staff as they deliver care across the maternity and neonatal pathway

The investigation considers the maternity and neonatal care pathway to include pre-pregnancy advice and care, pregnancy care, labour, birth, neonatal care, postnatal care including psychological support and care and support including bereavement care for adverse outcomes such as miscarriage, stillbirth, perinatal, and maternal morbidity and mortality.

If you work in maternity or neonatal care, please take a few minutes to complete the survey below, which closes on Friday, 6th March.

National maternity and neonatal investigation Workforce Survey