Antenatal Care: Finance

(asked on 1st March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department plans to allocate for the provision of perinatal pelvic floor services in the next five years; and where the focus of that funding will be targeted.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 12th March 2021

Perinatal pelvic health care is provided and funded locally across England. In addition to existing local investment, the NHS Long Term Plan commits to improving access to postnatal physiotherapy and for all women to have access to multidisciplinary pelvic health care across England by March 2024.

This will be delivered locally through the establishment of Perinatal Pelvic Health Services, and NHS England and NHS Improvement will be providing 14 Early Implementer Systems (EIS) with up to £10.5 million funding to help develop these services from Quarter 4 2021/22 to 2023/24. The EIS plans to increase the establishment of specialist physiotherapists and midwives and provide additional training to maternity staff to improve the prevention, identification and treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction in the perinatal period.

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