Setting the Research Priorities for Pregnancy Scanning: A Nationally co-produced vision with expectant women, the public and healthcare professionals
Matthew, J., Watty, S., Nihouarn Sigurdardottir, J. , Malamateniou, C. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2352-8575, Skelton, E. ORCID: 0000-0003-0132-7948, Barry, Z., Rutherford, M., Silverio, S. A. & Story, L. (2025).
Setting the Research Priorities for Pregnancy Scanning: A Nationally co-produced vision with expectant women, the public and healthcare professionals.
British Journal of Radiology,
doi: 10.1093/bjr/tqaf192
Abstract
Objectives
Despite sonography studies being integral to routine high quality antenatal care, clinical research in this field is less commonly initiated or led by sonography professionals. It is also unclear what the research priorities are for service users within the UK’s sonography screening and diagnostic pathway.
Methods
Here, we present a national priority setting partnership project, which included two surveys which were co-produced with the oversight of a stakeholder PSP group comprising service users and healthcare professionals, n = 12.
Results
From the surveys, there were 348 individual responses and 616 validated research questions/uncertainties submitted. The top-ranked 26 indicative questions were discussed at a final joint stakeholder meeting (n = 17) and the top 10 research priorities for pregnancy scanning research were voted for and agreed by consensus. These fell into six main themes: 1. Maternal and parental experience; 2. Emerging technology; 3, Screening, prediction, and diagnosis, 4, Role of pregnancy MRI, 5, Continued professional development, training and education; and, 6. Service delivery and workforce.
Conclusions
We envisage this PSP will support teams of researchers and clinicians with important and achievable targets to move the field of pregnancy scanning forward.
Advances in Knowledge
This is the first co-produced antenatal scanning priority setting partnership highlighting real world issues and lines of enquiry as proposed by service users and health care professionals.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Institute of Radiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Publisher Keywords: | Co-production, Fetal MRI, Obstetric ultrasound, Priority Setting Partnership, Sonographers |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics |
| Departments: | School of Health & Medical Sciences School of Health & Medical Sciences > Department of Allied Health |
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