The OASI Care Bundle Project

This scaling up programme was a collaboration between the RCOG, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, the RCM and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), with funding provided by The Health Foundation.

OASI2 project

The OASI Care Bundle project has been succeeded by the OASI2 project, to evaluate the sustainability of the OASI Care Bundle and methods to scale-up the intervention to further maternity units in the NHS.

Read more about OASI2

Background and history

RCOG / RCM statement of support

The RCOG and RCM would like to encourage all healthcare professionals to adopt the care bundle into their practice to improve health outcomes for women.

OASI videos

3 women who have anonymously spoken about their experience of suffering from the effects of an OASI, and why reducing OASI matters.

Project materials

Materials coming out of the Oasi Care Bundle project

FAQs about the OASI Care Bundle

Evaluation

Formal implementation of the care bundle in the 16 participating units ended in April 2018. The OASI Care Bundle team subsequently evaluated the merits of the programme and their evaluation papers were published in 2020.

• Read the study protocol for the project
• Read clinical outcomes evaluation for the project
• Read the qualitative evaluation of clinicians’ perspectives
• Read Women’s experiences of the OASI Care Bundle
• OASI1 lessons learned

Evidence for the project

• Carrol F, Knight H, Cromwell DA, Gurol Urganci I, van der Meulen J. Patterns of maternity care in English NHS trusts 2013/2014; 2016.
• Gurol-Urganci I, Cromwell DA, Edozien LC, Mahmood TA, Adams EJ, Richmond DH, et al. Third- and fourth-degree perineal tears among primiparous women in England between 2000 and 2012: time trends and risk factors.BJOG 2013;120:1516–25.

Find out more – links and resources