This document provides strategies for changing birth environments to improve staff and user engagement. It recommends visible leadership, involving staff in the design process, and providing training to build confidence with new equipment. It advises making changes now rather than waiting for a new building. Specifically, it suggests removing unnecessary items to create space, investing in low-cost improvements like wallpaper, and challenging labels of "high risk" environments by focusing on safety and comfort.

2. Birth EnvironmentStrategies for change

3. INSPIRATION

5. STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE

6. Lovely environments are nothing without staff and users engagement Need visible and active leadership

7. Ask your users what they want e.g. may not want cot in room due to superstition

8. Use women’s stories to build a powerful narrative to engage staff

9. Involve staff in the design of new rooms