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Local Maternity & Neonatal System (LMNS)

The LMNS is a partnership of people involved in maternity and neonatal services who work together to improve services, make them safer and personalised to the people who use them.  

The LMNS members include:

A graphic showing the organisation logos of the LMNS partners
  • Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP)

  • Lincolnshire NHS Integrated Care Board

  • Maternity & Neonatal Programme Team

  • United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (ULHT)

  • Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT)

  • Lincolnshire NHS Community Health Services (LCHS)

  • East Midlands NHS Neonatal Operational Delivery Network

  • Lincolnshire County Council

  • East Midlands Academic Health Science Network

  • NHS East Midlands

  • Maternity & Newborn Safety Investigations

  • Healthwatch Lincolnshire

LMNS Priorities

Underpinned by the NHS England Three Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services, our priorities are:

Listening to women and families 

Supporting our workforce

Developing and sustaining a culture of safety

Meeting and improving standards and structures

How we measure our progress

We will measure our progress in the following ways:

  • Reducing the number of still births

  • Reducing the number of neonatal deaths

  • Reducing the number of maternal deaths and brain injuries

  • Promoting choice to women and their families

  • Ensuring women have personalised care plans

  • Improving workforce retention rates

Maternity & Neonatal Programme Team

The Maternity & Neonatal Programme Team (Better Births) work within the Lincolnshire NHS Integrated Care Board and support the Local Maternity & Neonatal System by leading on the coordination and implementation of programme delivery.

Read our Equity & Equality strategy for Lincolnshire.

The team recently hosted a series of 'What Matters To You' events across Lincolnshire.  The aim of the events was to hear the thoughts of families and professionals about maternity and neonatal services.

The team recently worked with NHS Armed Forces and the Maternity Voices Partnership to launch a new pilot project in Lincolnshire.  The pilot was successful and now Lincolnshire has a permanent Military Maternity Service.

Meet the people working in the Maternity & Neonatal Programme team and the Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership

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