Obstetric anaesthesia quality metrics: local implementation of data utilisation in the United Kingdom

Local data collection and analysis are acknowledged as common barriers to generation of, and benchmarking against clinical outcome standards in obstetric anaesthesia. We present a replicable model for departmental data collection, processing and visualisation, in the form of a data dashboard. The dashboard has enabled contemporaneous data analysis, leading to real clinical and organisational improvements. By using widely available software and expertise, we present a replicable model, which if adopted at other centres would improve local ownership over obstetric anaesthetic data and provide service insights. We believe that this represents an important step towards national data collection projects in obstetric anaesthesia.