Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of maternity hospitals in England which (a) have, (b) do not have and (c) are planning to create Bereavement Suites.

This information is not held by NHS England. We previously funded SANDs, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity to work with other baby loss charities and Royal Colleges to produce and support the roll-out of a National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP) to reduce the variation in the quality of bereavement care provided by the National Health Service.

The pathway covers a range of circumstances of a baby loss including miscarriage, stillbirth, termination of pregnancy for medical reasons, neonatal death, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). As of 1 January 2023, 84% or 108 NHS England trusts have committed to adopting the nine NBCP standards. One of the nine standards is that bereavement rooms are available in every healthcare setting where a pregnancy or baby loss may occur.