The Lancashire Antenatal Pre-eclampsia and Hypertension Clinic, or LeAPH for short, has been developed by Dr Emma Ingram, lead Obstetric Consultant for hypertension, and Sr Lisa Cook, Specialist Midwife for Maternal Medicine, and will run on Wednesday mornings in the Trust’s Antenatal clinic. As part of the service, pregnant women and birthing people are provided with a home blood pressure monitor, where they can upload their results onto their electronic maternity record, and clinical staff can then view their recordings. The app uses a red-amber-green system, meaning that if a user’s blood pressure is too low or high, advice is available on what to do.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Previously, if hypertension was identified at an early antenatal appointment, there was no clear management pathway in place, which meant women and birthing people were passed between different primary and secondary care areas, with little continuity. The clinic has been added to the Trust’s maternal medicine centre, which was established in October 2023 following the Independent Review of maternity services in the Ockenden Report.
The new centre made the Trust the third centre in the region to offer enhanced maternity services, along with Liverpool and Manchester. The centre has gon.
