About this app

Mum & Baby: your personal NHS guide for pregnancy, birth and beyond This app is your guide to all the options available for your maternity care in

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. Using this app you can:

• explore and choose where to give birth
• find all the key information you need for having a baby
• keep track of all your appointments
• create your own personal care plan for pregnancy, birth and beyond.

The Mum & Baby app is personalised for women who use NHS maternity services in

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, however the resources can be be used by any women and their families seeking maternity support and information.

Independent rating

ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care & Health Applications, has awarded its prestigious kitemark to the Mum & Baby app. When reviewed against 180 different criteria the app achieved 86%, one of the highest rating awarded. It also achieved the highest rating of any pregnancy and birth app tested by ORCHA.

Credit

The first version of Mum & Baby was launched in 2014 and was built through the initiative of Dr Sunita Sharma, Lead Consultant of Postnatal Services at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, supported by CW+, the charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CWPLUS Registered Charity No.1169897). The app was subsequently expanded and updated, led by Helen Maric and Amanda Rogers, midwife project managers in the North West London ‘early adopters’ team in 2018. This project would not have been successful without the ongoing support of CW+ and Imagineear and the North West London Local Maternity System.

Reviews and updates

The contents of this Mum & Baby app will be reviewed quarterly and updated accordingly by the North West London Local Maternity System – an approved panel of clinicians and service users to ensure that information given remains accurate, up-to-date and relevant for users. If you detect any issues with the app, please email: mumandbaby.nwl@nhs.net. We will get back to you within 72 hours.

Disclaimer

The information and suggestions included in this app are intended to inform you about a range of topics related to having a baby. Care has been taken to include information that is in line with the guidance, advice and/or quality standards that are approved by a range of organisations like the RCOG (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists), UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) and NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). It is intended that content of this app be used as a supportive resource only. The content is not a substitute for specific advice. Where you have any concern as regards the safety and wellbeing of yourself or your baby you must seek medical advice and not rely upon the details contained with this app. Inclusion of named agencies, websites, companies, products, services or publications in this app do not constitute a recommendation or endorsement by the North West London Local Maternity System.