Badger Notes Maternity

BadgerNet Maternity is an electronic maternity healthcare record system, created and managed by SystemC Ltd. It allows real-time recording of all events wherever they occur: in the hospital, the community, or at home. This includes both high risk (consultant-led) and low risk (midwife-led) pregnancy pathways. Based on a woman-centred care model, the BadgerNet Maternity system comes with a portal for women to view and access their own maternity records online. 

Badger Notes is the online portal and app that allows you to access your maternity records over the internet through your PC, tablet device or mobile phone. The information that you view is generated in real-time from your hospital-based maternity system record, using details entered by your midwife or other health professionals involved in your care.

Care Plan:

• A week by week timeline of your pregnancy.
• Learn about your baby’s development.
• Access information recommended by your midwife.
• Learn about events likely to happen each week.
• View your booked appointments.
• Write a personal diary entry and add a photo.
• Enter BP or pulse oximetry readings if asked to do so by your Midwife.

Maternity Record 

• View extracts of information direct from your medical record.
• View the members of your care team.
• Watch the ‘Antenatal care summary’ report grow into a record of some of your key pregnancy events.

Conversations 

• Submit your thoughts and questions about your antenatal care, birth plan and postnatal care to your midwife – they will review this with you at your next scheduled visit.

Leaflets 

• A full library of the hospital’s Pregnancy Patient Information leaflets.
  
  

A quick tour of Badger Notes

In the Badger Notes app there are four tabs at the bottom of the screen; Care Plan, Maternity Record, Conversations and Library. These sections are also available on the website version, but the layout is slightly different.

• Care Plan:
  • This is a week-by-week timeline of your pregnancy which includes personalised information
  • Under each week heading you will see appointments, recommended reading (leaflets) and the option to add a photo or diary entry. This is your pregnancy record so you can write a personalised diary and add photos.
    

• Maternity record:
  • This section contains information recorded by the people looking after you in your pregnancy such as blood test results, a summary of your care and your GROW chart.
    

• Conversations:
  • You can add your birth plan here and use the Antenatal and Postnatal Support Conversations sections to add questions for your midwife which you can discuss at your next appointment – do not use this for anything urgent such as reduced movements, pain or bleeding.
    

• Library:
  • This is a library of all the leaflets, videos and links that are available to you. Some of them are available in other languages.
  • A glossary of medical terms and definitions is also included here.
    

Badger Notes have replaced our handheld notes. There are a number of benefits to using Badger Notes over paper notes, and these include: 

• Information can be shared with you directly from the maternity system.
• Records can be easily updated at each maternity visit or appointment.
• Midwives do not have to double enter data onto paper handheld notes.
• Only those with the correct login details are able to access the notes. 

You can add information regarding: 

• Yourself, such as your occupation and any allergies. This can be discussed with your midwife at your booking appointment.
• Your plans and preferences for birth.
• Feedback regarding your antenatal care, labour and birth experiences. 

• All information is held securely and cannot be accessed without the correct login details (similar to internet banking). 
• Badger Notes is powered by BadgerNet, the same secure platform used by healthcare professionals involved in your maternity care. 

Watch the tutorial video below which shows you how to set yourself up and the features available to use throughout your pregnancy.

How do I get an account (if I haven’t had an account before)?

• Before you start you will need
  • The account activation passphrase that your midwife will give you either over the telephone before your first appointment or at your first appointment.
  • Access to the email address that you gave us when you made your self-referral.
  • Access to your mobile phone so that you can be sent a verification text.

Android or iPhone app

Download the app from Google Play or the App Store, search for Badger Notes.

• Download the app and open it
• On the initial screen tap on Create account
  
  
• Enter the email address you gave when you registered your pregnancy and the account activation passphrase that your midwife gave you and click on Next.
  
  
• At this point you will be asked to choose between using your NHS app login details or setting up a Badger Notes account. You need to remember which you choose!
• If you choose NHS login you will be prompted to enter your NHS app login details.
  
• If you choose Register Using Badger Notes you will be prompted to make a password and a PIN.
• You won’t need to use your account activation passphrase again.

PC or laptop website

Go to badgernotes.net

• Click on Register.
  
  
• Read the Privacy Notice and click on I Agree.
  
  
• Enter the email address you gave when you registered your pregnancy and the account activation passphrase that your midwife gave you and click on Next.
• You will then be prompted to make a password and a PIN. You won’t need to use your account activation passphrase again.

I have already got an account; how do I add a new pregnancy?

• Before you start you will need:
  • The account activation passphrase that your midwife will give you either over the telephone before your first appointment or at your first appointment.
  • Access to the email address that you gave us when you made your self-referral.
  • Access to your mobile phone so that you can be sent a verification text.
• Log in to your account using the same email address and password that you used previously.
• Click on the menu icon.
• Tap on Add a care record.
• Enter the account activation passphrase that your midwife gave you and your new pregnancy will be added to your record. You will be able to see all your pregnancies (that have documented on BadgerNet) in the menu underneath Care Records.
  
  

• Before you log in click on Eng in the top right corner.
  
• Tap on English to see the list of available languages (Welsh, English, Spanish, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Somali, Punjabi and Bengali) and select the one you require.
  
• If you are already logged in, click on the menu icon then select the current language; this will bring you to the Change Language screen again.
  
  
• If you are on a laptop/PC using the web version of the Badger Notes use the browsers inbuilt translation to translate to the language of your choice.

See www.badgernotes.net/help for more information.

If you can’t log in, make sure you are using the same method of login that you chose at the beginning of your pregnancy. If you chose to login using your NHS app you need to do this every time. If you have forgotten your NHS app password you need to go to that app and reset it.