Infant Mortality

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 15 September 2021.

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Photo of Julian Sturdy Julian Sturdy Conservative, York Outer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that it remains on target to meet its aim of halving the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths by 2025.

Photo of Nadine Dorries Nadine Dorries Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care), The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

NHS England and NHS Improvement are investing an additional £95 million in maternity services to support recruitment of 1,200 midwives and 100 consultant obstetricians. £26.5 million of this investment will go to multi-disciplinary training. The National Health Service (NHS) is investing £52 million to fast track its Long Term Plan commitment to ensure that all women will have access to all of their maternity notes and health promotion information through a smart phone or other device by 2023/24.

The Department announced a new £500,000 NHS maternity leadership training programme to address issues raised in the Ockenden review. Maternity and neonatal leaders across 125 Trusts and 44 local maternity systems are receiving support to help them lead improvements in workplace culture and facilitate greater collaborative working between nurses, doctors, midwives and obstetricians.

A refreshed national Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme ensures that themes emerging from learning nationally are turned universally into changes to clinical practice, behaviour and service models locally.

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