Dr Penny Sheehan
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first heard Jun 2026
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They also have a Caring for the Carer course, which provides trauma-informed strategies to help clinicians sustain their own wellbeing.
There's a whole lot more resources, which are all under the Resources tab at the
adapting the bundle locally, you know, we expect people to use improvement science, I guess, to do local adaptations.
So PDSA cycles and particularly partnering with consumers would be key for that.
So I've been a clinical leader in implementation of the Safer Baby Bundle in three different health services.
And I've also had involvement in implementation in the Learning Health Network through Safer Care Victoria.
If I could speak a bit more broadly for a moment, my experience has shown me that all improvement work takes time and resources.
So it's critical to allocate that.
We found that improvement work was more effective when there was good buy-in from executives.
So although we don't like to talk about top down, we want the clinicians on the ground to own and really be interested in it.
It also helps if you have strong support and driving from the executive level, particularly because they are the ones who control the resources really.
Broadly, my experience has shown me that the results are a significant uplift in implementation and understanding of improvement processes generally when clinicians take part in these improvement programs.
We find that when people take part in the projects,
then that knowledge and that understanding of the process extends to other areas and we hope that eventually, you know, it leads to more uplift in all sorts of different areas of care.
My name's Dr Penny Sheehan.
I'm an obstetrician from the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne.
And among other things that I've done for the last three years, I've been the clinical lead for the maternity and newborn improvement team at Safer Care Victoria and have had involvement with the Safer Baby Collaborative and implementation of the Safer Baby Bundle, both at a service level and also at the level of Safer Care.
We know that the relationship between maternal age and stillbirth risk follows a U-shaped kind of curve with higher rates at younger ages and also in women aged over 35.
And I've got to say the latter group is making up more and more of our maternity population.
Women in their first pregnancy have a higher likelihood of stillbirth.
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