On 1 December 2025, we hosted a webinar exploring the application of the MOMENTS framework (Meanings, Competencies and Materials in Everyday Team Safety) as a practical tool for enhancing local safety cultures across healthcare settings, with a particular focus on perinatal services. 

Designed for clinical staff, safety leads, Culture Coaches, Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, PMAs /PNAs, Perinatal Leadership Teams, Educators, Lecturers, Preceptorship Leads, Workforce Leads, and healthcare managers, the session explored how routine everyday practices can be used as a window to explore cultures of safety at local level, enabling staff to reflect on what is working well and what could be changed or improved.

Watch the recording:

Main speaker

Professor Nicola Mackintosh
Professor in Social Science applied to Health – SAPPHIRE Group, Division of Public Health and Epidemiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester.

Co-lead of the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC) Enhancing Cultures of Safety research theme.

Professor Nicola Mackintosh is a Professor in Social Science applied to Health. She has a background in critical care nursing, and is a graduate of King’s College London. Her research uses sociological theory and methods to bring new understandings to patient safety and improvement science research. Nicola brings an extensive portfolio of experience in ethnographic research in emergency, critical, maternity and acute care. Her research has included the management of escalation of care in different settings, speaking up about healthcare quality and safety, the role of new digital technologies in shaping patient-provider roles, and safety culture tools in maternity. She is Research Group Lead for SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement Research) at the University of Leicester and one of the co-leads for the Enhancing Cultures of Safety theme as part of the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration.

Guest Contributors

Gill Travers
Registered Midwife and Senior Project Manager, Health Innovation West of England

Gill started at Health Innovation West of England in November 2023 after 9 years working as a Registered Midwife; working on the MedSIP programme initially with a focus on polypharmacy and improving chronic pain management by reducing harm from opioids, she commenced as workstream lead for the West of England Perinatal Culture and Leadership Programme in April 2024 (at the commencement of the programme). Gill is a qualified EMCC Coach Practitioner.

Prior to commencing the role, she worked as an Audit and Guideline Midwife and spent 10 months acting up as the Lead Midwife for Safety and Quality in Maternity and Neonatal Services at Great Western Hospital, Swindon. From her previous roles, Gill has developed a passion for delivering evidence-based care and promoting patient safety within health and care services.

Matt Hill
Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Non-Executive Director, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Matt was the National Clinical Advisor on Safety Culture at NHSE and his passion is to nurture the conditions where teams and individual can all flourish in the delivery of brilliant care. He sees the work through a relational lens and uses curiosity to explore how the work is done rather than focusing on what we do.

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