{"id":12,"date":"2018-11-14T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socn.scot.nhs.uk\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2024-01-18T18:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T18:51:39","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About SOCN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socn.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/09\/socn-team-logo.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:268px;height:auto\" title=\"socn team logo\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>SOCN was commissioned in 2018 in response to the MBRRACE-UK report, \u201cSaving Lives, Improving Mothers\u2019 Care\u201d, published in 2016, which highlighted that cardiac disease remained the largest indirect cause of death in pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The network facilitates clinical and other improvements in the area of obstetric cardiology&nbsp;through delivery of objectives set by the National Specialist Services Committee (NSSC) for NHS Boards and SGHSCD within the national commissioning process.&nbsp;&nbsp; The network encompasses care for women who either have a pre-existing cardiac condition before pregnancy or go on to develop cardiac conditions during pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By identifying opportunities to develop guidance, the network will improve outcomes for women with cardiac disease and support implementation of optimal care to any women with a cardiac condition who is contemplating a pregnancy or has a pregnancy in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The network will highlight the potential points in the clinical pathway of care to improve outcomes in pre-pregnancy counselling, antenatal care and post-partum care.&nbsp; This includes advice and access to contraception and consideration of the importance of their cardiac status when assisted conception is being planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facilitating collaboration within and across the multi-disciplinary teams involved in a woman\u2019s care at local, regional and national levels is a key goal of the network.&nbsp; This work will build on a data set developed and analysed by the network.&nbsp; The care experiences and outcomes for both the woman with a cardiac condition and the pregnancy will be reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">SOCN was commissioned in 2018 in response to the MBRRACE-UK report, \u201cSaving Lives, Improving Mothers\u2019 Care\u201d, published in 2016, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}