CHAT Secretary Maria Aitken thanks all those who so kindly contributed to the recent Maternity Survey:-
“Thank you so much to the 178 mums who took time to complete our maternity survey and those mums who we spoke to in person and who contacted us by email .
Your stories remain confidential, but we have taken the main themes of what you have told us and we are working hard with NHSH to try to improve things for mothers, partners and families.
We recently met with the Chief Executive for NHS Highland Pam Dudek, and Head of the NHS Board, Sarah Compton-Bishop, and spoke about the main themes and concerns that you have raised. A mum also attended this meeting and told her personal story.
Every month some of our CHAT members meet with NHS Highland maternity staff and together we are creating actions to try to address the points you raised in the survey and also from our discussions with mums.
Of course CHAT’s main push is for a similar maternity model as our neighbours in Orkney; we will always campaign for this as this is the Model that would allow the majority of our Caithness mums to be able to give birth safely in Caithness not over 100 miles away.
We will update you all as improvements happen.
Thanks again to all of you who took the time to complete this survey ,we are sure it will make a difference” x
Caithness Health Action Team 