Miscarriage Care and Facilities in Scotland: Scoping Report NHS Lanarkshire

Staff guidance, skills and training

Written clinical guidance

In NHS Lanarkshire, all three sites reported that they offer written clinical guidance for clinical staff on the appropriate treatment and care for miscarriage. All sites strongly agreed that all necessary staff that require access to this clinical guidance have access to it. However, University Hospital Monklands neither agreed or disagreed that this guidance is followed for women experiencing miscarriage, while all other sites agreed or strongly agreed (Table 22).

There are staff with additional specialist training to deal with all baby losses including miscarriage at University Hospital Wishaw only. University Hospital Hairmyres has no plans to implement this in the next two years while University Hospital Monklands can access this within the Health Board but not on site. Additional services provided are shown in Table 23 below.