Hospitals & Healthcare
Maternity Governance & Safety
Bring sepsis, PPH and escalation pathways out of static PDFs and into interactive, step-by-step guidance. SOPHIA centralises maternity SOPs and policies into one searchable library, automates review cycles, and turns high-risk clinical processes into flowcharts staff can follow at the bedside — closing the gap between guidance written and guidance followed.
Maternity services carry some of the highest clinical governance requirements in the NHS. National reports — from Ockenden to the most recent PFD (Prevention of Future Deaths) findings — have consistently identified the same systemic failures: guidance that exists on paper but isn't followed in practice, escalation pathways that break down under pressure, and a gap between what senior clinicians intend and what junior staff do at the bedside.
SOPHIA was first deployed in a maternity setting at Ashford and St Peter's NHS Foundation Trust, where the team needed to move beyond a static SharePoint and Intranet document library and create something staff would actually use during a clinical emergency. The result was a set of interactive, flowchart-style process guides for high-risk scenarios — sepsis recognition, postpartum haemorrhage management, obstetric emergency escalation — built directly in SOPHIA and accessible from any device on the ward.
Beyond emergency protocols, SOPHIA supports the full maternity governance cycle: policy and guideline ownership and scheduled review, multi-disciplinary SOP sign-off, staff acknowledgement tracking and audit-ready documentation of who has accessed what and when. When a CQC inspection requires evidence that maternity staff have been trained on the latest guidance, SOPHIA provides it without the manual data gathering that typically consumes weeks of governance team time.
For maternity networks and ICS-level oversight bodies looking to standardise guidance across multiple providers, SOPHIA's cross-organisational features allow shared frameworks to be maintained centrally while individual trusts retain local ownership of their own processes, supporting compliance with NHS Resolution's maternity incentive scheme requirements without duplicating governance effort across sites.
Download the maternity case study to learn more.