Findings | Straightforward miss/error | 16 | 17 | 33 | ‘There has been no Audit against NICE guidelines for contact (number of visits)’. TA |
Specific/detailed | 10 | 11 | 21 | ‘Aromatherapy oils are expensive’. TA |
Positive finding not reported | 15 | 0 | 15 | ‘Initial engagement visits to community teams by HBT members facilitated implementation’. RA |
Finding emerged from ’what is not in the data' – higher level interpretation | 5 | 1 | 6 | ‘It is not known whether current MSW recruits will be successful in the 45 credit [training] module, and how Service needs will be met if they are not’. RA |
The embedded team’s knowledge of the context meant they did not agree | 0 | 3 | 3 | Examples suppressed as sensitive. |
Suppressed as politically challenging | 0 | 2 | 2 | Examples suppressed as sensitive. |
Total | 46 | 34 | 80 | |
Recommendations | Straightforward miss/error | 3 | 18 | 21 | ‘Ensure that meetings are attended by as many of full and part-time workers as possible’. TA |
Recommendation emerged from ‘what is not in the data’ – higher level interpretation | 19 | 0 | 19 | “Consider whether services which fall outside of ‘standard’ maternity care should be routinely offered, for example, complementary therapies, hypnobirthing, pool provision, high frequency or duration of contact with women’. RA |
Embedded RA team’s contextual knowledge meant that they did not agree with recommendation | 0 | 15 | 15 | ‘Co-locate the HBS with other maternity services.’ TA; the RA team knew that this was not possible at the participating hospital trust. |
Specific/detailed recommendations for a service dataset or audit | 0 | 9 | 9 | ‘Frequency of texts between mother and midwives could be retrospectively collated to demonstrate improved accessibility’. TA |
Contextual knowledge was used to develop recommendation | 4 | 0 | 4 | ‘Ensure that the HBT midwives are sufficiently familiar with Birth Centre/Delivery Suite facilities and protocols.’ RA; the TA team assumed this would be the case already. |
Total | 26 | 42 | 68 | |