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Written Question
Maternity Services: Equality and Safety
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Will Quince (Conservative - Colchester)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether officials in her Department have had discussions with NHS England on the potential merits of (a) renewing the national maternity safety ambition beyond 2025 and (b) extending that ambition to include reducing inequalities.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

The Department has regular and ongoing discussions with NHS England on how to improve maternity and neonatal outcomes for mothers and babies, as well as how to tackle disparities in access, experience, and outcomes, including and beyond 2025.

Written Question
Infant Mortality and Miscarriage: Disadvantaged
Monday 4th March 2024

Asked by: Will Quince (Conservative - Colchester)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that a commitment to reducing inequalities in (a) pregnancy loss and (b) baby deaths is included in the next Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

The Government is committed to tackling and reducing disparities in health outcomes, and works closely with NHS England to improve equity for mothers and babies, and race equality for staff. A central ambition of the National Health Services’ three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services is to reduce inequalities in access, experience, and outcomes for women and babies. This plan is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/three-year-delivery-plan-for-maternity-and-neonatal-services/

There are no current plans to revise the three-year plan, and NHS England are focused on delivering the existing commitments, including those relating to inequalities in still birth and neonatal death.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Accountability in the NHS

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir George. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Hemel Hempstead (Sir Mike Penning) on bringing this important debate to the House today. I know from our numerous conversations over the years that he is a tireless champion of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Accountability in the NHS

"My right hon. Friend is right that there is a lot more that we can do. Reflecting what he has just said, I will touch on some of the measures that have been put in place over recent years.

In 2019 there was the NHS patient safety strategy. We introduced, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2022
NHS Staffing Levels

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Wirral West (Margaret Greenwood) for raising this important issue. I join her in thanking all NHS staff for everything they do for us. The workforce are the beating heart of everything …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2022
NHS Staffing Levels

"The hon. Gentleman is right that that is happening and I will come on to that matter in more detail. I would be happy to meet him, because it is an issue that I know needs gripping not just at the national level but by local integrated care boards too.

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2022
NHS Staffing Levels

"Mental health does not fall specifically within my brief—it falls within that of the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (Maria Caulfield)—but I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman on that point.

Let me turn to staff wellbeing, which …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Healthcare Facilities: Weybridge

"First, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Dr Spencer) on securing this important debate. He has been a strong advocate for the rebuild of the Weybridge hospital site, which he rightly said is owned by NHS Property Services. He met the former Secretary of State …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Ministers and officials regularly engage with a wide range of organisations to ensure that we are alert to the staffing issues facing the NHS and care sector across our country. We have increased training places for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals and increased access to clinical placements across a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I thank my hon. Friend for her question. She is a passionate campaigner on this issue. I recently responded to a debate on this issue led by her. She also chairs the all-party parliamentary group on rural health and social care. She is right, and we have developed an apprenticeship …..."
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