How MaternityLink works — for her and for HR
How MaternityLink works — 3 steps
MaternityLink serves as a crucial continuity infrastructure layer for maternity care. It enables a continuous, longitudinal maternity record to be maintained across NHS, private, and employer-funded healthcare providers. Rather than replacing existing clinical systems, it connects them through a shared continuity framework. This ensures maternity-relevant clinical information remains consistent and visible across care settings.
This Happens In 3 Steps:
Step 1 — She builds her health passport
From the moment a woman joins MaternityLink, she builds her encrypted passport. She uploads scan reports, midwife notes, MAT B1 forms, and GP letters. She logs appointments, symptoms, and workplace concerns. She records what she needs HR to know — and what she never wants HR to see.
Step 2 — She configures her workplace adaptations
She toggles on the accommodations that apply to her — lactation scheduling, fatigue pacing, flexible working requests, pregnancy risk assessment, pay continuity checks. The app auto-translates her choices into formally-worded HR language. She reviews it privately before sharing anything.
Step 3 — She shares only what she chooses
When she's ready, she generates a QR Workplace Compliance Pass. HR receives a structured, legally-framed accommodation document. They never see her clinical records, her journal, or her fertility treatment. She controls the membrane entirely.
Capture (point of care)
Clinical updates are recorded at any point within maternity care, including hospitals, GP practices, community midwifery teams, private providers, and urgent care settings. These updates reflect changes in clinical status, risk profile, investigations and outcomes, and care decisions.
Synchronisation (continuity layer)
Captured information is structured into a unified maternity record that is continuously updated across providers. This creates a longitudinal clinical narrative rather than isolated episodes of care, ensuring a complete overview of the woman's journey.
Access (next point of care)
At any subsequent interaction, authorised clinicians can view the complete and current maternity record. This ensures clinical decisions are made with full contextual awareness of the patient's recent history, improving safety and efficiency.
Ensuring continuous, visible care
MaternityLink creates a single, continuous view of a woman’s maternity journey across providers. It ensures that clinical context is not fragmented during transitions between services.
Core functionality
MaternityLink ensures that clinical context is not fragmented during transitions between services. This includes:
- Pregnancy timeline and key clinical events
- Risk factors and evolving clinical status
- Test results and scan information
- Care plans and clinical updates
- Documented concerns raised during care
This enables clinicians to access a complete and current maternity history at any point of care.
Innovative modules
MaternityLink is composed of integrated modules that support continuity of care across providers. Only the core modules are surfaced at system level:
Maternity continuity record (Maternity Passport)
A longitudinal maternity record that follows the woman across all care settings. It brings together maternity-relevant clinical information into a single continuous record accessible across providers.
Cross-provider clinical sharing
A controlled system that enables authorised healthcare providers to access the same up-to-date maternity record. This reduces duplication of history-taking and improves continuity between services.
Structured concerns log
A system that ensures concerns raised by the woman during her care journey are recorded, time-stamped, and visible across authorised providers. This ensures concerns are not lost during transitions of care.
Clinical Support Layer (MaterniAI)
A structured clinical intelligence layer that highlights relevant changes within the maternity record.
It supports clinicians by surfacing:
- changes in risk indicators
- clinically relevant trends
- potential escalation signals
This is designed to support clinical judgement, not replace it.
Emergency Access Layer
A secure mechanism that allows authorised clinicians to access essential maternity information in urgent situations where the patient may be unable to communicate.
Health Tracking Module
A structured system for recording key maternal health indicators over time, enabling clinicians to view trends rather than isolated readings.
Document Integration Module
A system that converts uploaded maternity-related documents into structured records within the continuity system.