Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to include the six week maternal postnatal check in the general medical contract as recommended by National Childbirth Trust.

We are aware of the concerns of the National Childbirth Trust on this issue and will be meeting the Trust shortly to discuss them further. Inclusion of a requirement to carry out the six-week maternal postnatal check in the General Medical Services contract would need to be negotiated and agreed, as part of the annual contract negotiations. We have asked for this issue to be considered in the contract negotiations for 2019/20.