About Us

The West Midlands Placenta Accreta Spectrum service provides a specialist maternity care service to accurately diagnose PAS and determine the clinical risk it poses. To maximise safety for the mother by providing high-quality specialist multidisciplinary care for the delivery of women and birthing people at high risk of PAS. 

 

This involves:

• Preventing avoidable deaths in a population at very high risk of mortality
• Minimising ITU admission and length of stay in ITU
• Reducing blood product administration
• Reducing the risk of severe maternal morbidity such as cardiac arrest, fistula formation and lower urinary tract trauma 
• Reducing risk of unnecessary surgical procedures including vertical abdominal incision and hysterectomy 
• Reducing the risk of iatrogenic injury from false positive diagnoses 
• To improve safety for the baby by minimising iatrogenic premature delivery 
• To ensure that the quality of the care provided is nationally monitored and subject to a process of continued improvement (through a national dashboard).