Table 4 Auditable suggestions for ongoing monitoring of the reconfiguration's impact

Antenatal care

Skills mix and range of staff in additional antenatal care.

Antenatal risk management.

Inequalities in access and outcome – particularly gestation at booking, smoking status, high-risk pregnancy management, access by minority ethnic groups and teenage mothers.

Hospital care

Midwifery resuscitation skills.

Use of resuscitation equipment at the Huddersfield MLU.

Perineal tears, episiotomies, significant blood loss or problems after delivery, length of labour at Huddersfield MLU.

Transfer rates from HRI to CRH. Do they match the estimated 1–2 women per week?

Transfer times.

Mobilisation times of ambulance crews from the time of being alerted to the time they arrive at the MLU door.

Patient satisfaction of community services and MLU.

Transport

Uptake of transport and travel schemes by postcode and ethnicity.

Post natal

Breastfeeding initiation and continuation.

Infant mortality.

Postnatal depression rates.